MitchCalcutt
10-02-2010, 09:37 PM
Turning 46 was just another day but being 46 made me go back over my life and a chance to reflect over a fairly mixed up time. Being my biggest critic in life reflection wasn’t a good thing.
In the early days keeping everything you catch was normal, not a lot of thought went into it. How was I to know the ten yellow finn I kept and couldn’t eat in the 70’s may have been the ten that parented 10 thousand that are not around today. And if 100 other anglers kept ten finn they didn’t need could that have been 100.000.000 around today?
I get particularly peeved these days when I see a boat full of people using bait jigs catching bucket loads of baby fish then twisting the heads off. I have tried to educate these anglers with no great success. I kept undersized fish back in the 70’s, so who am I to criticize others.
I love seeing young anglers catching fish, the looks on their faces are memories to keep. Will my 2.5 year old get a chance to catch a marlin or even a bream before fishing is banned due to lack of stocks? Will my boy and I get a chance to walk a paddock with a 22 before guns are totally banned?
Our fish stocks are highly dependant on a huge money spinner for some overseas company that doesn’t give a s--- about the end result. Bait fish such as slimies, pilchards, striped tuna and whatever can be netted by the ton. I don’t understand why we need to selfishly take the most important link out of the marine food chain for fertilizer. This isn’t just happening in Australia but world wide. I watched a doko early this year that showed long liners somewhere in the worlds deep oceans with 90km of line out, with some ridicules amount of hooks, each hook with a slimy. Each time the lines went out an entire bait school went out.
I make lures but I will use any conventional method to catch fish, including live baiting. If I catch something edible I will keep enough to eat for one meal, or if it happens to be big then two meals. So is this wrong? am I a hypocrite?
I have put a huge amount of thought into this over the past few years and don’t have an answer. I would like everything to be the same in ten years as they are now. The chances of that happening are none and F------l
Most of the people who use Ausfish fish with conservation in mind. The others are mad keen fishos, just like me.
I do like the saying (limit your catch, don’t keep your limit) or catch em all day but only keep your limit.
No need to reply I’m just venting.
Mitch
In the early days keeping everything you catch was normal, not a lot of thought went into it. How was I to know the ten yellow finn I kept and couldn’t eat in the 70’s may have been the ten that parented 10 thousand that are not around today. And if 100 other anglers kept ten finn they didn’t need could that have been 100.000.000 around today?
I get particularly peeved these days when I see a boat full of people using bait jigs catching bucket loads of baby fish then twisting the heads off. I have tried to educate these anglers with no great success. I kept undersized fish back in the 70’s, so who am I to criticize others.
I love seeing young anglers catching fish, the looks on their faces are memories to keep. Will my 2.5 year old get a chance to catch a marlin or even a bream before fishing is banned due to lack of stocks? Will my boy and I get a chance to walk a paddock with a 22 before guns are totally banned?
Our fish stocks are highly dependant on a huge money spinner for some overseas company that doesn’t give a s--- about the end result. Bait fish such as slimies, pilchards, striped tuna and whatever can be netted by the ton. I don’t understand why we need to selfishly take the most important link out of the marine food chain for fertilizer. This isn’t just happening in Australia but world wide. I watched a doko early this year that showed long liners somewhere in the worlds deep oceans with 90km of line out, with some ridicules amount of hooks, each hook with a slimy. Each time the lines went out an entire bait school went out.
I make lures but I will use any conventional method to catch fish, including live baiting. If I catch something edible I will keep enough to eat for one meal, or if it happens to be big then two meals. So is this wrong? am I a hypocrite?
I have put a huge amount of thought into this over the past few years and don’t have an answer. I would like everything to be the same in ten years as they are now. The chances of that happening are none and F------l
Most of the people who use Ausfish fish with conservation in mind. The others are mad keen fishos, just like me.
I do like the saying (limit your catch, don’t keep your limit) or catch em all day but only keep your limit.
No need to reply I’m just venting.
Mitch