Update on Angling Trust

[wurzel]

Wurzel

 

You guys just don't get it. You never will.

 

I can accept that.

 

You're just too damn greedy.

 

We fish with a passion for angling.

 

That's the difference.

 

 

I was thinking about your reply last night Ha, while sitting under a brolly that was quickly starting to resemble half an igloo .

 

I was wondering what is it that I don't get exactly?

 

Are you saying that those that take home larger quantities of fish for the freezer don't have a passion for angling ?

 

Are you saying anglers down south given the opportunity are different to those up north?

 

I fish with a passion whether I'm angling or commercial fishing I meet very few with more passion.

 

What’s the difference?

 

I kept 3 out of the 7 sizable codling I caught last night, does that qualify me as normal?

 

I never have been able to understand the phrase "You're just too damn greedy."

 

As I 've never made more money than I need or know what to do with commercial fishing, quite the opposite is the norm I can never see where the word greedy can ever be used to describe me or any commercial fishermen.

[Elton]

I think you're greedy for not letting me know you were fishing last night, Wurzel. I'd have been up for a bit of that.

[H.A.]

I can never see where the word greedy can ever be used to describe me

 

or any commercial fishermen.

 

Yer what?

Koof me, I do apologize ... you are obviously the exception to the rule!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahhh ... but you're just a 'green' netter I hear you say?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have no time at all for bottom scrapers.

 

If your efforts are those of a sustainable static type, then I'll forgive your sins as long as you kiss my new car's a*se ....

 

 

[Elton]

Did anyone else read this article on the BBC website last year?

[Dave B]

Did anyone else read this article on the BBC website last year?

 

 

Yeah Maaan, it was real grooovy.

 

Hey Ade, you haven't got rid of that lovely old black bucket and bought a shiny new orange one have you?

[H.A.]

Hey Ade, you haven't got rid of that lovely old black bucket and bought a shiny new orange one have you?

 

Hi Dave ....

 

never liked the old Lexus, after you boys defaced it in Anglesey ....

 

 

 

That Gerschwin fellah was a bruddy nuisance .... using her as an billboard!

 

Back to yer question - I can't afford the Zonda right now as my 'bonus' has disappeared up HBOS's bottom!

 

I did manage to drive one of these in Tokyo last year .. apparently, the leetle babe nearly broke Clarkson's neck!

 

 

Hang on .... £8,279,093. Can't be right!

 

Somebody needs to get a grip on the economy!

 

 

PS: dunno why you're smilin' -

 

 

Ooops, I jerst noticed .... I can see now that you were p****d orf!

 

You've reached that stage in your life when you mustn't wear 'tan' trousers.

Edited February 17, 2009 by H.A.

[Elton]

Dave,

 

I've just read your bit in Boat Fishing Monthly regarding the Angling Trust. Do you reckon they read the sea fishing magazines?

[wurzel]

 

Yer what?

Koof me, I do apologize ... you are obviously the exception to the rule!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ahhh ... but you're just a 'green' netter I hear you say?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have no time at all for bottom scrapers.

 

If your efforts are those of a sustainable static type, then I'll forgive your sins as long as you kiss my new car's a*se ....

 

 

 

Hello Ha

 

Can't see anything greedy going on there at all, you have a haul of fish that probably won't cover the monthly interest payments on a ship of that size, a cod end of chat haddocks of which there is a legal market for, a little days work for a part time gill netter and a unfortunate picture of a bit of discarded net.

I would be happy to kiss your new cars arse, it's a nice car, if only you would answer my question.

Do you really think when it comes to catching cod anglers are any different down south than those up north?

[H.A.]

Can't see anything greedy going on there at all, you have a haul of fish that probably won't cover the monthly interest payments on a ship of that size, a cod end of chat haddocks of which there is a legal market for, a little days work for a part time gill netter and a unfortunate picture of a bit of discarded net.

I would be happy to kiss your new cars arse, it's a nice car, if only you would answer my question.

 

Do you really think when it comes to catching cod anglers are any different down south than those up north?

 

Thank the Lord for the decommissioning for old pharts who used to drag the life out of anything which held fish and for, hopefully, MCZ projects and the setting up of conservation areas.

 

We're 20 years behind the yanks (sorry 'Newd'), but possibly not past the 'tipping point' on all NE Atlantic stocks.

 

I'm actually going to vote for Mr Borg next time he needs it; 'cos I'm peed off with what has happened along my stretch of coast.

I guess I'm a tad too close to France.

 

 

YES, it's been overfished by bottom people.

YES, the environment (mine and my neighbours - 18 000) has been irrevocably damaged (no kelp or shellfish patches for 20 years now).

YES, there's a different attitude to catching fish down here.

 

Don't you folks up Midlands and E Coast have anything else left to eat?

(Wrong Q and wrong time; but anglers need to re-assess their attitudes.)

 

Give life a chance!

 

 

 

Have some shellfishers fer good measure ....

 

 

at least that will allow you to change the subject.

 

 

I see 'proper 'commercials' putting out their whelk and crab/lobster gear every day and I hold no malice toward them.

 

Some (like you, Wurzel?) use gill nets and trammels ... and good luck to them.

 

We have a multitude of 'unders and overs' (12m) who rip up everything in pursuit of their scallops, oysters, plaice and cod.

 

I wish I had nothing to do with it.

 

Unfortunately for your lot, some of us care.

 

[Leon Roskilly]

Email recieved from the Angling Trust

 

Angling Trust membership now at 12,000 members

 

In less than three months Trust membership has topped 12,000 (including current ACA, NFSA and NFA members). More than 600 clubs are also members.

 

This impressive growth means the Trust is on target to recruit over 20,000 individual members by the end of the year.