T.V.

[OP-JB]

Why is it that to see the very worst treatment of fish by anglers I only have to turn on the television? I am sick to the back teeth of watching that loony Australian rip out hooks with huge barbs from fish the equivalent size of the lure! I know he is a dreadful angler and requires all the help that he can get and most of his few captures need to be shown but a youngster, surfing channels and seeing and hearing the removal of barbed trebles from the face of a "Barramundi", :mad: will not be beckoned into the family.

The Total Fishing host should be more aware as well. Who the hell uses barbed trebles nowadys! I also think they should be seen returning all the Salmonids they catch as well, it's the least they can do to promote the best side of the sport.

Go Fishing is not barbless either.

We have Hugh Miles and Chris Yates to thank for the only programmes that represented angling well.

[chesters1]

i thought chris yates used "traditional" equiptment?

[Peter Sharpe]

They call them jerk baits in this country.

[Spindle]

chesters1:

i thought chris yates used "traditional" equiptment?

Chris does use modern line and hooks. Whether he chooses to use barbless or not, I'm not sure. He mentions the use of Drennan Raptor hooks in one of his books.

 

Also, from all I've seen/read, Chris is better than many with his treatment of fish. For example, he refused to wait for the British Fish Record people to turn up to weigh his former record carp, choosing instead to let it go after a few photos, hence the british record remained (officially) at 44lb.

 

[ 05 May 2002, 03:21 PM: Message edited by: spindle ]

[Colin Brett]

OP-JB:

We have Hugh Miles and Chris Yates to thank for the only programmes that represented angling well.

How about "The Angling Experience" made in Ireland back in the late 80's. The Pike episode was excellent! Careful handling, barbless hooks etc. etc. Good angler as well, some bloke from Cambridge, his name escapes me for the moment. Anyone remember that series and the angler involved?

Colin

[Spindle]

I still have them on video. A fabulous series. I particularly liked the mayfly episode.

I think the guy's name was Colin something, but I'll check.

[Danny H]

OP-JB:

I am sick to the back teeth of watching that loony Australian rip out hooks with huge barbs from fish the equivalent size of the lurewell.

ACTUALLY Rex Hunt advocates barbless hooks, which for Australia is probably a big step.

 

And Steve starling is as good a T.v fisherman as the boring duffers we seem to pull out in the U.K.(Des Taylor's lure fishing anyone????)

 

The Public ain't gonna watch Rex Hunt, and if they do, then they must be pretty stupid to not realise he is in Australia, not the U.K

.

 

Also If we are going to complain, I feel that the sight of a beautiful Marlin, hung up on the Dock to be weighed for some rich kids competition( Marlin world cup), is going to look a lot more barbaric to the average person than a lure in a fishes mouth.

 

Peter I posted a poll about Jerkbaits in order for anybody who wanted to have a crack at them to have their say, few voted.

 

The Jibes are getting a little boring now.

[OP-JB]

Danny H:

Danny H:

I am sick to the back teeth of watching that loony Australian rip out hooks with huge barbs from fish the equivalent size of the lurewell.

ACTUALLY Rex Hunt advocates barbless hooks, which for Australia is probably a big step.

 

And Steve starling is as good a T.v fisherman as the boring duffers we seem to pull out in the U.K.(Des Taylor's lure fishing anyone????)

 

The Public ain't gonna watch Rex Hunt, and if they do, then they must be pretty stupid to not realise he is in Australia, not the U.K

.

 

Also If we are going to complain, I feel that the sight of a beautiful Marlin, hung up on the Dock to be weighed for some rich kids competition( Marlin world cup), is going to look a lot more barbaric to the average person than a lure in a fishes mouth.

 

Peter I posted a poll about Jerkbaits in order for anybody who wanted to have a crack at them to have their say, few voted.

 

The Jibes are getting a little boring now.

Those size 6 'barbless' hooks of Ol' Yibadee Yibada don't half fly out don't they! Quick twist of the needle nose pliers..and again..get that hook out of the opereculum..one more there. Barbless hooks 'my ar*e'.

 

Do you really think the non-angling public don't draw parallels between angling down under and and the behavior of anglers here in the U.K? I've heard my first cuckoo!

 

Your point about the Marlin is correct up until you go off on one about 'rich kids'. I didn't like that much. Doesn't the Anglers Paradise boss enter it with his girls?

 

Where are you coming from Danny Boy?

 

Op -JB

[Zinky]

OP-JB

Rich kids and Marlin,what a load of B*ll*cks

We have just got sponsorship to fish this year and we aint rich just hard work on our part to find a sponsor we have one boat only, only 3 can fish so 3 will miss out.

I could bore you for hours about the marlin but just one point more Marlin a killed in any one day caught in nets around the World than the Marlin World Cup could catch if it was fished every day of the year and every angler caught.

 

:mad: :mad:

[OP-JB]

"He was an old man who fished alone in a skiff in the gulf stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish".

 

Ernest Hemingway