Madness, in what should be a serene world (Carp fishing)

Member Name: lophius

Product:	Carp fishing
Date:	02/10/00 (34 review reads)
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Advantages: Tranquil picturesque wild lakes in the heart of the countryside

Disadvantages: featureless pits, boring fish mechanical chuck hook and haul fishing

When I was a kid the idea of going fishing at the weekend with my friends to the local duck pond was enough to ensure that I had at least 4 sleepless nights a week. The pond was less than half an acre in size and not more than 3 ft deep. However, it was full of all manner of fishy wonders from minnows and sticklebacks to mighty pike and carp.

The fun was in sitting with mates under the trees, by the waterside catching all manner of species, watching a float bob and dip on the waters surface and eventually dissapear, only to reappear with a wondorous splashy creature attached to the hook, whether a 2 inch minnow, roach or perch or a 2 lb tench.

My gripe is that nowadays children do not get the same introduction to angling, it seems to me that all ponds have been levelled. cleared of all weeds and lillys, the trees cut down and instead of a wonderous mixture of fish, 11 and 12 year olds are sat for hours on end behind huge banks of fishing rods after chucking in half a ton of groundbait, particle baits and throwing leads more than 200 yards waiting for the carp.

It seems as though we are no longer interested in catching fish, instead we all want to catch robotised homogeneous mirror carp from homogeneous featureless lakes, I am sure that many anglers today are missing the point.

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