A returner laments

[smiling cat]

Since I stopped serious fishing I have not stopped looking around-it seems to be all carp and boilies. Waters that used to be on a club book are now £6 a day to catch carp .

 

Now carp are fun but what would you prefer? A rudd just short of 3lb or a carp at 10lb?

 

Maybe I`m seeing the world through the eyes I had in the 70`s?

[Errrm]

Since I stopped serious fishing I have not stopped looking around-it seems to be all carp and boilies. Waters that used to be on a club book are now £6 a day to catch carp .

 

Now carp are fun but what would you prefer? A rudd just short of 3lb or a carp at 10lb?

 

Maybe I`m seeing the world through the eyes I had in the 70`s?

 

I'm not sure that is a fair comparison, obviously a close to 3lb rudd!! I better comparison would be between a 14oz rudd or a 10lb carp, or a 3lb carp or a 40lb carp. That makes it abit more difficult or me to decide :-)

Edited June 27, 2010 by Errrm

[lutra]

I'm not sure that is a fair comparison, obviously a close to 3lb rudd!! I better comparison would be between a 14oz rudd or a 10lb carp, or a 3lb carp or a 40lb carp. That makes it abit more difficult or me to decide :-)

Depends how you read the question. How many waters have been stocked with carp (of any size) and therefore take away the chance of other coarse fish getting to specimen size?

 

Adding extra stock that compete in the same part of the food chain to a water that has a natural balance can only suppress the fish that are already in it. To make it worse, carp are a strong fast growing species that will out compete other species for the available food and in some waters reduce the available food by muddying the water and destroying plant life.

[Anderoo]

Plenty of lamenters here, Smiling Cat. Pull up a creel and make yourself at home

[arbocop]

Maybe I`m seeing the world through the eyes I had in the 70`s?

 

 

What's wrong with that!

[poledark]

I know a lot of waters that hold a large head of carp..................AND....................plenty of quality silver fish as well

 

Den

[lutra]

I know a lot of waters that hold a large head of carp..................AND....................plenty of quality silver fish as well

 

Den

Yep me to Den, but i know a lot more small lakes, lodges and ponds that have been ruined by carp and other species like bream.

 

Carp are never going to make specimen size in most of these waters especially up here and at the stocking levels they get stocked at. Slowly we are running out of waters that haven't got them in, yet we are still stocking them. To make it even worse we've now protected them even in waters they haven't got to yet.

[rarepleasures]

Since I stopped serious fishing I have not stopped looking around-it seems to be all carp and boilies. Waters that used to be on a club book are now £6 a day to catch carp .

 

Now carp are fun but what would you prefer? A rudd just short of 3lb or a carp at 10lb?

 

Maybe I`m seeing the world through the eyes I had in the 70`s?

 

I prfer a mixed fishery, I also much much prefer it if they'd done some landscaping so its an environment that encourages wildlife. Last holiday I fished one of the morning session in a corner pool and had a blackbird singing in the tree opposite me, not more that 3 yards away. Then a watervole swam out straight in front of me.

[Anderoo]

Tinca Tinca kindly lent me some magazines - Waterlog and Big Fish World - from the early 90s, and reading them is like waking up from a bad dream. This was about the time I was hungrily digesting every word in mags like Coarse Fishing Today, and the style of articles, the themes and even the adverts were like old friends! It made me quite nostalgic, and it's hardly a lifetime ago.

 

I know I go on about magazines a lot but at any point in time they do reflect the current state of angling. I bought Coarse Fisherman the other day (one of a few I still occasionally buy) and the editorial was nothing more than an advert for Dynamine Halibut boilies (because the editor had been sent a load for free), and one of the letters to Julian Cundiff (the 'star' letter I think) was from a kid wanting to know how to get sponsered. Even my hero Tony Miles has gone seriously down in my estimations. In a fairly recent article he listed his top tench baits, one of which was a fruit flavoured pellet thing from Pallatrax that he hadn't even tried yet.

 

We're going backwards.

[Sportsman]

Sorry, I don't get this.

If there is a style of fishing you don't like then don't do it.

If there are baits that you don't approve of then don't use them.

If you don't like the magazines then don't buy them.

If you are blessed with an abundance of wonderful river fishing then It doesn't really affect you.

In the meantime why not let us poor delusional anglers get on with our enjoyment of our second rate sport.