anglingtimes

has anyone read the artical in the angling times;; livebaiting: why it has to stay. (...and why pikers must start playing by the rules).
there is a link to the website go fishing, but i cant find it on the fourm , was going to paste it on here. i thought it gave us guys n gals a bit of stick. whats your thoughts if you read it

I didn't read it. In fact, I probably used it when I ran out of toilet paper....

(that's me on the pan)


....andy....

Can we assume you are not an AT fan then, Mr. Macfarlane..?

Do you ever read an Angler's Times article about something and you know in your heart, you'll never get to do it?

It'll say....


"Monster Tench Fishing In a Private Farm That Plebs Can't Use"

You'll read with complete wonderment about how some bloke sets out with a spinning rod, some 3lb line, a packet of rusty hooks and a tub of worms and you'll think,

"What is this loony all about?"

The bloke then parks his behind next to some bush overhanging a little pond the size of paddling pool and he flicks out a flippin' Campbell's Meatball. He counts to 10. Seconds that is mind. Not 10 hours like we do and then what happens? He's not only into a fish. He's into a flippin' 14lb Tench or something.

You think,

"Where is this bloke?? I've been fishing my heart out for over 25 years and the best you can do me is a perch.

Honestly. Where is it these guys go fishing. I'm game for anything....lol

eh, i was given the paper to read from a guy at work. some good offers on tackle tho.

Is this the link you were looking for ?

http://www.gofishing.co.uk/HomePage2/GLOBAL/Search-Results/?N=0&Ntx=mode%20matchallpartial&Ntk=site&Ntt=livebait

Adie

yes , thats people having their say about it, i got the impression that some folk think pikers are at the bottom of the fishing scale. just my thoughts

wow i thought it was just me that had that feeling about general opinion on pikers lol

I recently opened a Facebook account via a link on Trent Pikers Blog. I was soon in touch with an old schoolmate who had viewed my pages & had seen posts between Trent Piker, Phil Kirk & I about Pike fishing. He said "I'm not into Pike but may be interested in fishing for Carp, Barbel etc".... Whats up with Pike!..? I must ask him..
I have now frozen the account because I was getting all sorts of things on my pages about online games like 'Mafia Wars' & Dungeons & Castles etc.... which is NOT my kinda thing. IMHO there is a lot of crap on it. It does put you in touch with folk, mind you.

robh107 wrote:wow i thought it was just me that had that feeling about general opinion on pikers lol

my thoughts to. we put every bit of effort into it, time, money, traveling.

Bazz wrote:I recently opened a Facebook account via a link on Trent Pikers Blog. I was soon in touch with an old schoolmate who had viewed my pages & had seen posts between Trent Piker, Phil Kirk & I about Pike fishing. He said "I'm not into Pike but may be interested in fishing for Carp, Barbel etc".... Whats up with Pike!..? I must ask him..
I have now frozen the account because I was getting all sorts of things on my pages about online games like 'Mafia Wars' & Dungeons & Castles etc.... which is NOT my kinda thing. IMHO there is a lot of crap on it. It does put you in touch with folk, mind you.

yeah i use facebook too mate..... all that crap just goes with the territory unfortunately.
if anyone on this forum has a f/b account and would like to add me just look for rob huntley..... make sure you tell me your username from here though cos i get alot of friend requests on there and tend to just ignore those that i dont immediately recognise.

I was pretty miffed at some of the comments in that article.

Some of the best and most responsible anglers i know are pike fishermen, and if the comments in that article are a correct reflection on how other sections of the angling community feel about us then i'm pretty shocked to be honest.

Personally though i feel it is not a true reflection of how things are - at least not in the parts of the country that i fish.


GGrrrr...bleedin' journo's.

tootall wrote:I was pretty miffed at some of the comments in that article.

Some of the best and most responsible anglers i know are pike fishermen, and if the comments in that article are a correct reflection on how other sections of the angling community feel about us then i'm pretty shocked to be honest.

Personally though i feel it is not a true reflection of how things are - at least not in the parts of the country that i fish.


GGrrrr...bleedin' journo's.

it makes you wonder if it is just talk