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My answer may not sit to well with all the old traditionalist codgers who frequent AN but for me catching is a huge part of fishing, its why I go. I know many anglers like to wax lyrical about the stunning locations they get to fish and the amzing wildlife and sunrises/sunsets they get to see while fishing. I love all those things aswell but the fact that fishing takes me to some nice locations is a by-product of fishing, and not the reason I go. I have seen some really great stuff while fishing but to me that's a bonus not the reason I go.

 

I love being outdoors and visiting nice places, watching wildlife and going for walks. I honestly enjoy that more when I am not fishing then when I am. I am not fan of getting up at stupid o'clock on the morning, going out when it is bitterly cold and wet, driving long distances in crap conditions at great expense. I am not doing that just to take in the scenery.

 

I know many other anglers enjoy looking after their kit and even making tackle. But I hate cleaning it, I hate getting it sorted for a trip, I hate drying nets, I hate washing out bait boxs, I hate lugging gear to and from where I plan to fish and I hate packing it all away at the end of the day.

 

I do all those things in the hope/belief that I may catch a fish and I really hate it when i don't catch.

 

If you never caught would you really enjoy fishing?

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Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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It's amazing what people will do to make cash, all that talk of education....Yeah right lol.

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My thoughts exactly Ian. Another twist on the heavily stocked, so called, fishery industry.   As for the OPs question, you only have to look at my signature.   John.  

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Well yes fishing is all about catching fish, if somebody told me that I’d never catch anything again I would sell up and stop fishing. I think if anglers are honest with themselves most would do the same. Having said that, not catching fish doesn’t detract from my enjoyment provided I find the environment a pleasant place to be and provided the possibility of catching (however remote) is there.

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Dales,

 

Welcome! Haven't seen you on AN for awhile.

I have to admit, I now go "fishing" as a pretense for "getting out". Although I haven't even done that much recently.

 

My post on the subject covers a lifetime of angling. For example, I couldn't fish for the "pot" any longer even if I wanted to.

 

Let me add some personal reasons I fish.

 

Stress relief - I still have a wife

Social bonding - fishermen seem to be my kind of people

My health - bp before a session and during a session have GOT to be different

Self Esteem - blah blah (but this is where catching becomes involved and I don't even have to kill anything0

Thrill (it's the journey not the destination - Barry)

 

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As my sole fishing companion, Willee Wontee says, Anticipation...

 

Then again, it's a cheap way to see the fabulous Whitsundays across the Hillsborough Channel. :thumbs:

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Cheers, Bobj.

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To me, its "How well do you understand your environment ?"

 

Catch a fish, stalk and shoot a deer, grow a good crop of potatoes, or come home with a basket-ful of field mushrooms and the answer is "Well enough"

 

Fail to achieve the above ? Try harder.

 

 

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

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"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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Bobj has the word I would use to describe why I go fishing - anticipation.

 

That delicious feeling of knowing you're going, the meticulous preparation of kit and of bait. When all this is done, trying to sleep when all you can think about is whereabouts you're going to set up, how you're going to tackle the swim what you'll do first. Then feeling knackered as you haven't slept too well but the eager drive when no-one else is about to a silent waters-edge.

 

It's invariably an anti-climax, of course, when you've been sat staring at an immobile float or inert baitrunner for the first hour or so, but it is also about being there.

 

Always an experience and you will never catch anything unless you do it of course.

 

Magic.

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Dales,

 

Welcome! Haven't seen you on AN for awhile.

 

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Hi Phone, I still look in on AN a lot but never seem to have much to say these days. I should really try to post more often but as the site is not so busy anymore there are never many threads going and so less chance I have anything to offer. A bit of a vicious circle really, less posts/threads and so members post less and less.

Stephen

 

Species Caught 2014

Zander, Pike, Bream, Roach, Tench, Perch, Rudd, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Eel, Grayling, Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout

Species Caught 2013

Pike, Zander, Bream, Roach, Eel, Tench, Rudd, Perch, Common Carp, Koi Carp, Brown Goldfish, Grayling, Brown Trout, Chub, Roosterfish, Dorado, Black Grouper, Barracuda, Mangrove Snapper, Mutton Snapper, Jack Crevalle, Tarpon, Red Snapper

Species Caught 2012
Zander, Pike, Perch, Chub, Ruff, Gudgeon, Dace, Minnow, Wels Catfish, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Roach, Bream, Eel, Rudd, Tench, Arapaima, Mekong Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Marbled Tiger Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Thai Redtail Catfish, Batrachian Walking Catfish, Siamese Carp, Rohu, Julliens Golden Prize Carp, Giant Gourami, Java Barb, Red Tailed Tin Foil Barb, Nile Tilapia, Black Pacu, Red Bellied Pacu, Alligator Gar
Species Caught 2011
Zander, Tench, Bream, Chub, Barbel, Roach, Rudd, Grayling, Brown Trout, Salmon Parr, Minnow, Pike, Eel, Common Carp, Mirror Carp, Ghost Carp, Koi Carp, Crucian Carp, F1 Carp, Blue Orfe, Ide, Goldfish, Brown Goldfish, Comet Goldfish, Golden Tench, Golden Rudd, Perch, Gudgeon, Ruff, Bleak, Dace, Sergeant Major, French Grunt, Yellow Tail Snapper, Tom Tate Grunt, Clown Wrasse, Slippery Dick Wrasse, Doctor Fish, Graysby, Dusky Squirrel Fish, Longspine Squirrel Fish, Stripped Croaker, Leather Jack, Emerald Parrot Fish, Red Tail Parrot Fish, White Grunt, Bone Fish
Species Caught 2010
Zander, Pike, Perch, Eel, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Mirror Carp, Common Carp, Crucian Carp, Siamese Carp, Asian Redtail Catfish, Sawai Catfish, Rohu, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Pacu, Long Tom, Moon Wrasse, Sergeant Major, Green Damsel, Tomtate Grunt, Sea Chub, Yellowtail Surgeon, Black Damsel, Blue Dot Grouper, Checkered Sea Perch, Java Rabbitfish, One Spot Snapper, Snubnose Rudderfish
Species Caught 2009
Barramundi, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Wallago Leeri Catfish, Wallago Attu Catfish, Amazon Redtail Catfish, Mrigul, Siamese Carp, Java Barb, Tarpon, Wahoo, Barracuda, Skipjack Tuna, Bonito, Yellow Eye Rockfish, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Black Fin Snapper, Dog Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Marble Grouper, Black Fin Tuna, Spanish Mackerel, Mutton Snapper, Redhind Grouper, Saddle Grouper, Schoolmaster, Coral Trout, Bar Jack, Pike, Zander, Perch, Tench, Bream, Roach, Rudd, Common Carp, Golden Tench, Wels Catfish
Species Caught 2008
Dorado, Wahoo, Barracuda, Bonito, Black Fin Tuna, Long Tom, Sergeant Major, Red Snapper, Black Damsel, Queen Trigga Fish, Red Grouper, Redhind Grouper, Rainbow Wrasse, Grey Trigger Fish, Ehrenbergs Snapper, Malabar Grouper, Lunar Fusiler, Two Tone Wrasse, Starry Dragonet, Convict Surgeonfish, Moonbeam Dwarf Angelfish,Bridled Monocle Bream, Redlined Triggerfish, Cero Mackeral, Rainbow Runner
Species Caught 2007
Arapaima, Alligator Gar, Mekong Catfish, Spotted Sorubim Catfish, Pacu, Siamese Carp, Barracuda, Black Fin Tuna, Queen Trigger Fish, Red Snapper, Yellow Tail Snapper, Honeycomb Grouper, Red Grouper, Schoolmaster, Cubera Snapper, Black Grouper, Albacore, Ballyhoo, Coney, Yellowfin Goatfish, Lattice Spinecheek

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Dales,

 

Welcome! Haven't seen you on AN for awhile.

I have to admit, I now go "fishing" as a pretense for "getting out". Although I haven't even done that much recently.

 

My post on the subject covers a lifetime of angling. For example, I couldn't fish for the "pot" any longer even if I wanted to.

 

Let me add some personal reasons I fish.

 

Stress relief - I still have a wife

Social bonding - fishermen seem to be my kind of people

My health - bp before a session and during a session have GOT to be different

Self Esteem - blah blah (but this is where catching becomes involved and I don't even have to kill anything0

Thrill (it's the journey not the destination - Barry)

 

Phone

your having a laugh phone, the journey is the problem for me, when I get there, Weymouth after 3 boring hours by road it's a fabulous destination to set out afloat. and yes I fish for the pot, I also enjoy giving it away to mates etc as you can't buy what I catch, it's all pre-frozen dirge in the shops. and the only other minor fly in the ointment is a so called angling org who's prime objective is to curtail the activities of the sea anglers while earning money off of them and more so off the tax payer, while claiming that they both govern and do good for the anglers. They don't, they have even admitted that anglers are not their prime concern when it comes to funding.

 

And I have been known to release a few without being told to do so.

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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Obviously everyone wants to catch fish. But for me its a chance to get away from the bustle of everyday life and clear my head. It goes back to our basic needs to be at one with nature. Its the whole experience, forget the crack and social scene which is what some go fishing for, I need to get away and chill out recharging my batteries along the way.

 

I guess everyone takes something different from it and others.... well they just never will understand!

 

 

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