The Fens 39 out again to Nige Williams

[Peter Waller]

Roy, so I was slagging off carp anglers aye? No mate, you read it all wrong, although I can understand why.

 

But I will have a go this time! Maybe the following will apply to you, although I suspect not.

 

Why is it that SOME carp anglers have a constant need to defend themselves?

 

Carp angling is carp angling, and long may it continue. Pike angling though, is pike angling! The species are different. What suits one doesn't necessarily suit the other. Carping has gone its own way in angling, it has its own attitudes, it is an angling cult, but once again these attitudes don't necessarily suit other species.

 

Hammering known big fish is part of the carp culture, the fish can take it. Fine, I don't have a problem with that.

 

I do have a problem when carp anglers see that what they do as being beyond reproach with regard to other species, as being so blessed perfect therefore it has to be right for everyone and everything else.

 

Like a lot of anglers who rarely fish for carp, or don't specialise in them but enjoy catching them, I do get fed up with the higher and mightier attitudes that come out of carp fishing. That I do have a problem with, with carp angling itself, no problem.

 

At the end of the day we are all anglers. Being a carp angler is a fact, not an accolade.

 

[ 22. January 2004, 12:54 PM: Message edited by: Peter Waller ]

[markward]

pick the bones out of that!!