Altfish
Veteran Member
Firstly, I am an angler, although I don't partake as regularly these days. I'd like to tell you a story...Biting onto something yummy and getting a hook in your mouth must be frightening and trying to swim away and getting reeled in must be painful.
Then wind up in someone's hands must suck!
For the poll question, just choose what you most lean towards.
I worked in Manchester in an office that included a, let's say very green activist, he was very anti-blood sports including angling.
Anyway, one day a canal basin in the city centre had suffered some sort of lock failure and the basin was fast emptying and the fish were in distress. I spotted this and spent the next 60 minutes on the phone to The Environment Agency and The Canal Trust trying to get it sorted and the fish saved. The lad realised in that moment that anglers care for the environment and care for their 'prey' more that 90% of the population who ignored it.
It is anglers who report something like 80% of pollution incidents in the UK