I don't think they'd get a Wingham membership !

[gozzer]

I thought so Steve, I haven't fish as far North as that, mainly Dumfries and Galoway, and Ayrshire, more coarse fishing around there.

 

John.

[Steve Walker]

Nowt but trout! And sticklebacks.

 

Well, theoretically, also maybe sea trout and salmon in the one with an outflow to the sea loch, but...

 

Caught a gorgeous male stickleback on the fly, though unfortunately I foul hooked it as I lifted off for the back cast. Not perfect fish handling, but it swam away ok...

[Andy_1984]

Oh you will burn in hell for that Steve! Noddy

 

[Steve Walker]

I thought "bloody hell, that fly feels a bit waterlogged"

 

[Phone]

gozzer,

 

You are indeed "missing something". You are far to somber. Post #4 is/was a Metaphysical disjunctivism, a visual experience, involving a “good case” perception and a “bad case” perception. The result should be curious, funny, intense, lyrical or scary.

 

Post #4 make fun of the inevitable direction this thread was bound to go (see 800 previous threads).

 

A RIGHT ANSWER cannot be reached through objective studies or material reality. Not this time or any of the previous thousands of times the subject has been addressed.

 

Fishing is fun, it is relaxing, it is refreshing and it is declining, especially with younger people. Certainly you can make a case for “protecting your form of ownership” with personal “good case/bad case examples as the voice of critical critics. But does it make you right?

 

Phone

[gozzer]

gozzer,

 

You are indeed "missing something". You are far to somber. Post #4 is/was a Metaphysical disjunctivism, a visual experience, involving a “good case” perception and a “bad case” perception. The result should be curious, funny, intense, lyrical or scary.

 

Post #4 make fun of the inevitable direction this thread was bound to go (see 800 previous threads).

 

A RIGHT ANSWER cannot be reached through objective studies or material reality. Not this time or any of the previous thousands of times the subject has been addressed.

 

Fishing is fun, it is relaxing, it is refreshing and it is declining, especially with younger people. Certainly you can make a case for “protecting your form of ownership” with personal “good case/bad case examples as the voice of critical critics. But does it make you right?

 

Phone

 

That's easy for you to say!

 

I'll stick to plain old English if you don't mind Phone. What I think you were trying to say was, you think I'm stuck in the past, you've heard it all before, (although 800s of times is, I feel a slight exaggeration), we keep going over the same ground, and we never reach a solution, no one will change their opinion, etc, etc etc.

I only know that because you have said the same thing many times before, almost every time we have this discussion, (I wouldn't say 800s of times though, I'm not prone to exaggeration). In fact I find it strange that you should use virtually the same argument over and over again, to try and dissuade me from constantly trying to persuade others to look at the bigger picture, and not just at catching fish.

 

As to whether it was curious, funny, intense, lyrical or scary....not to me. More strange and irrelevant, but that might just be me.

 

Does it make me right? In my mind it does.

 

John.

[Phone]

gozzer,

 

You shouldn't talk about the "bigger picture". You live on a tiny island.

 

Yes, I'm prone to exaggeration. I am, after all Phone. You are half right.

 

Phone

[chesters1]

Or half wrong

[gozzer]

gozzer,

 

You shouldn't talk about the "bigger picture". You live on a tiny island.

 

Yes, I'm prone to exaggeration. I am, after all Phone. You are half right.

 

Phone

 

 

A bigger picture is relative to the size of the smaller picture, regardless of the size of it's surroundings. A big fish in a small pond, could well be smaller than a small fish in a big pond. That is unless it's Phone that catches it, then it will be the biggest, regardless of it's actual size.

 

John.

[Andy_1984]

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