hi there

I love fishing ! i've been fishing every weekend since the age of 12 and i have no intention of stopping.. further more my 6 sons are also passionate anglers and i've got quite a few nephews into it to. That article stinks of imtimadation .. vive la fishing !

Well, that article sounds like it may have a few stretched truths there. Lets see an aggresive angler started trouble, but the police had to intervene to sort out a protester "but were mistaken"? more like a protester threw their weight around to the point where police had to intervene perhaps?

I wish to know if your organisation (and the other similar ones) are going to raise the same level of money for the Environment Agency that is paid annually by anglers to the EA (which is currently £26.50 per angler) and is used to help cleaning up our waterways, fighting pollution, prosecuting polluters, poachers etc.

Lets also look at how youve also seemed to tar all anglers with the same brush. There are many anglers who also pick up litter at lakes and rivers, join clear up parties to help improve their fishing environment, actively report river pollution and fish death from pollution to the EA. Its the same as any interest you get people who are considerate and people who are inconsiderate and fortunately round where I live the inconsiderate seem to be the minority I mean most of us i'd expect to want to keep fish alive and well and returned in good health to the water for the enjoyment of future generations of anglers and not have to sit in a tonne of beer bottles and fishing lines to catch them.

Have a read of the pisces website, it has lots of interesting points on there abou how to disrupt anglers such as "Saboteurs will wear waterproof gear and swim, wade or splash their feet in the water to stop anglers casting and scare away the fish". Would people from this site condone this sort of behaviour as that seems to be more of a danger to fish than a few hooks might be.