Would you carry on fishing without commercial fisheries - Page 2 - Talk Angling fishing chat and tackle advice

Dave · 24th August 2006, 09:35 PM

i like comericals not because of easy fishing but because i know i can fish a match and not worry a walker is going to smash my pole your a bunch of youth or a adult for that matter is going to run and grab my holdall i can relax and fish and even catch a few and in winter you can pack up if you are struggling and go down the bank to your car your go in the lodge and have a coffee and fish the match i know loads of disableb anglers would have to quit the sport if mercials went but i would carry on fishing because i love it but it woundnt be on canals in the city or rivers in town id get back together with hodnet club and fish ther canal matches in the middle of country thats where i would fish if not for mercials

redfin · 25th August 2006, 05:02 PM

I'm just as happy on the cut catching pairs of eyes in the depths of winter as I am bagging on a commercial in the middle of summer, so it wouldn't bother me.

And lets face it, some of the venues I have to fish with the various clubs i'm in, it's a good job

Eugene · 25th August 2006, 05:10 PM

Yes, we all fished 'natural' venues before commercials didn't we?

The Runner · 25th August 2006, 09:12 PM

Can answer that question best by turning it round a bit. If commercials were all there was to fish, I'd pack it all in
Enjoy them for only the occasional match (which is why my record on them's pretty mediocre)but would never consider pleasure fishing them. Or to be a bit more accurate, not one of the heavily stocked carp variety.Perfectly happy to sit somewhere like the big lake at Willow...

Liquidized · 25th August 2006, 09:23 PM

Larry, you are still a star to me

You didn't cost TA anything, we were there to enjoy it and we did

Sorry you had a rough introduction that day, but happy you sat, watched and appreciated those who were catching

Glad to see you haven't given up with the commercials and are now catching

One day I will let you kick my butt on a canal

As long as it's not a punch venue

Martyn

weldec · 25th August 2006, 09:37 PM

Commercials gets the thumbs up in our club as so many of us have been with the club since its launch nearly 36 yrs ago, so as youngsters we loved nothing better than crossing 5 fields sometimes without a trolley fishing a 6 hour match on the river trent and the long walk back some great sport, but as we have all grown older most members would not thank you for the long hikes as the benefit of the commercials is park and fish. But as you rightly say if the commercials dried up the we would all go back to the rivers and canals. But the pegs on some stretches of the Trent would take an eternity to get back to what they were, so overgrown. The revenu lost on the rivers must be astronomical.

P.S Gosh it's a long time since I launced a speed feeder across the widest point of the Trent, ohhhh those days all but a memory.

woodhouse · 25th August 2006, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave

i like comericals not because of easy fishing but because i know i can fish a match and not worry a walker is going to smash my pole your a bunch of youth or a adult for that matter is going to run and grab my holdall i can relax and fish and even catch a few and in winter you can pack up if you are struggling and go down the bank to your car your go in the lodge and have a coffee and fish the match i know loads of disableb anglers would have to quit the sport if mercials went but i would carry on fishing because i love it but it woundnt be on canals in the city or rivers in town id get back together with hodnet club and fish ther canal matches in the middle of country thats where i would fish if not for mercials

Dave
i dont understand what your trying to prove with this post!!

there is a large % of the anglers on here who fish on canals in towns.....

When was the last time you fished a canal match?

Larry Teepot · 25th August 2006, 10:25 PM

thanks liquidised...so u think u can fish the punch......i may just let you see how good you are at it..its my favorite method love it.......i feel a showdown comming on

Brian G · 25th August 2006, 10:34 PM

I will take the photos and do a write up, theres a first feature for the site Simon

Ashfield Dave · 26th August 2006, 02:37 PM

Canals, Gravel Pits and what with the Trent coming good again, i think i could survive without commercials.