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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaff" data-source="post: 1714855" data-attributes="member: 42340">It's amazing that any of us, birder or angler, will be able to pursue our hobbies at all. We'll be blind from all the mud-slinging that's going on.I'd just like to raise one point, if I remember right Kevin Wilmot, former editor of Bird-Watching magazine, left to take up the position of editor at one of the Angling magzines. So it's impossible to enjoy both hobbies is it?I myself have never felt any animosity from any fishermen, I always ask how thing's are going, it's called common courtesy. It's almost laughable that just a few individuals on both sides are hell bent on spoiling everyone's enjoyment of the UK's beautiful countryside through misinformation, rumour and good old fashioned prejudice. Is the next step mods and rockers style dust-ups? I can just see a gang of birders swinging their bins round their heads like flails as they charge straight into a pack of anglers using their rods and poles like pikes. It's all rather comical when you just sit back and think. :-O"Imagine all the people...." :hippy:</blockquote>