BoldBear

I think its a great thing to see less people on the river banks as there are more stretches & swims for people like me to fish without the fish being disturbed. If you think that the commercials are better; then just carry on thinking like that, then I can carry on catching the large bags of chub and barbel. while you fish your easy to fish overcrowded oversized garden ponds.
I know where I would rather fish any day.

Its a shame that Youngsters aren't coming into the sport as they used to; and a lot of them buy carp rods & alarms etc. straight away; then in a couple of years they get fedup & drop out; instead of doing their apprentiship with other fish and learning how to read a river or lake, and joining a club and entering club matches etc. etc. but thats the way it is nowerdays, it's a real shame though.

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