speyghillie
Well-known member
As a guy who lives in Southern England where every canal, river, gravel pit and lake is surrounded by anglers, mostly not elite ones paying enormous sums for fly fishing of salmon but eking out their leisure funds for local patch coarse fishing, I wonder why you think your location might add to, rather than detract from, your case.
The reason I mentioned where I live is because the days of the elite paying vast sums of money to Salmon fish is long gone and has been for sometime, the privately owned beats on the rivers have weeks un-fished that they would fill years ago, the demand for Salmon fishing in Scotland has fallen through the floor the last few years, partly because it is much cheaper to fish Norway or Russia and for more, and much bigger fish.
There have been a couple of cases of summering Ospreys disappearing "in suspicious circumstances" in Northumberland over the last 15-20 years at times when one wouldn't expect them to be moving
What kind of evidence is that, and how is it related to fishing, i do know for a fact that some Ospreys have been fitted with trackers... and they don't work, there is an Osprey ring number RED 8T that i see almost every morning and the tracker hasn't worked in 8 years.... and its still on his back.
With sweeping statements and no evidence i feel fishing will be next, will leave it there.
Thanks Gordon.
The reason I mentioned where I live is because the days of the elite paying vast sums of money to Salmon fish is long gone and has been for sometime, the privately owned beats on the rivers have weeks un-fished that they would fill years ago, the demand for Salmon fishing in Scotland has fallen through the floor the last few years, partly because it is much cheaper to fish Norway or Russia and for more, and much bigger fish.
There have been a couple of cases of summering Ospreys disappearing "in suspicious circumstances" in Northumberland over the last 15-20 years at times when one wouldn't expect them to be moving
What kind of evidence is that, and how is it related to fishing, i do know for a fact that some Ospreys have been fitted with trackers... and they don't work, there is an Osprey ring number RED 8T that i see almost every morning and the tracker hasn't worked in 8 years.... and its still on his back.
With sweeping statements and no evidence i feel fishing will be next, will leave it there.
Thanks Gordon.