Blue Water ---Wight Death

[theoldfart2]

Many years ago, when time was short and hair was long,and  The Who and The Rolling Stones, were on Ready Steady Go ,on a Friday Evening,I used to go fishing 'Out The Back' with my old chap.

Back in those days we had real boats, made of wood,clinker built. Took few real men to drag one of those up the beach I tell you. Well that is till we got the winch that we took turns to turn the handle. Bloody wonderfull thing till Baddle forgot to drop the ratchet and when he let go the handle flew round and broke his wrist. Still stopped him playing with the Five Fingered Widdow for a few weeks.

Still, back in them days when the Mackerel came in the sea was brown with fish shite.

I tell you when those big shoals went thorough they left so much crap behind them,you could have planted a row of spuds, it was that thick.

Come August there was so much Whitebait,there was no point fishing as the fish were bloated.

When me and nipper went out a couple of weeks ago the water was clear as Gin.

Nothing,,,,no Crap, no Whitebait, no Mackerel, Nothing!

Some on this site have said that it isn't as bad as I have said before, and not to worry.

But it really is that bad.

Will we do anything about it, course not.

With the modern technology improving all the time the fish have no chance.

If the fish stocks around the Wight have Gone down so much since the day that Baddle broke his wrist, I dread to think what it will be like in 40 years time.

Still one thing is for sure, I won't be here to see it,but some of you will.

Make the most of the few fish that are left while you can.

If life is a train journey,I recon I am just about pulling in to Pompey Harbour ( Mind you if I had got off at Fratton a few times I wouldn't have so many kids)

I really wish that in my lifetime I hadn't seen the sea so decimated,and done nothing about it but I did.

But before I depart this world,let me give you Nippers a tip or two that will ate sure you,have a long and happy marriage .

Remember that the one who cooks don't wash up, and the one who has the tap end don't clean the bath.

Oh yeah , and make love at least 3 times every week (this don't include the morning day breaker, which should happen every day),other wise you ends up with the full grump on listening to Keith Arthur at 6.30 in the morning and start fiddling with your tackle,.which is not good for your fishing.

T O F

[loopy78]

TOF - How do you go about encouraging the implementation of "the morning daybreaker??!"
Other relationship advice also gratefully received!!

[backdraft]

that made me grin,think you got it sussed out.

[Sunny]

I was chatting to an old boy, when I was fishing off the rocks in Northern Ireland; for the large mackerel they get there. Mackerel that are all over the 1lb mark and some going 2Lb.

He recounted that, when he was a boy, the Mackerel shoals would be 9 miles long and 2-3 miles wide. Immense gatherings of fish. Where are they now....fertiliser on russian fields; sold - ton after ton until they were gone - by greedy commercial fishermen for a few shillings !

Our government couldn't care any less, Europe is corrupt and inept; too busy lining their own nest and keeping the French and Spanish fishermen happy. And our own fleets are equally greedy, rarely complying with the rules and laws set to preserve fish stocks.

There are certain inevitable things, that we are powerless to change: global warming, human population growth, unfair taxation and the decimation of fish stocks.
It will be sad to see more and more species driven to the endangered list, but nothing will halt commercial fishing

We are simply observers of the atrocity

[boyscott]

Aug 6, 2013 3:06:26 GMT Sunny said:

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There are certain inevitable things, that we are powerless to change: global warming, human population growth, unfair taxation and the decimation of fish stocks.
It will be sad to see more and more species driven to the endangered list, but nothing will halt commercial fishing

We are simply observers of the atrocity

We cannot sit back and blame everyone else because whatever our contribution and level of influence for this very short span which is our lifetime we are custodians of the plant and all its resources. Yes we know we cannot turn the clock back to when stocks were more plentiful, we might not even achieve a recovery in the future but if we do nothing it is us who the future generations will blame and I don't want that as my epitaph.

Initiatives like the MCZs won't just happen, they have to be fought for so use your vote, use your purchasing power, use your influence, use whatever you have but DO SOMETHING...please!!!

Sermon over :-)

[Sunny]

Aug 7, 2013 15:13:59 GMT boyscott said:

Aug 6, 2013 3:06:26 GMT Sunny said:

<snip>

There are certain inevitable things, that we are powerless to change: global warming, human population growth, unfair taxation and the decimation of fish stocks.
It will be sad to see more and more species driven to the endangered list, but nothing will halt commercial fishing

We are simply observers of the atrocity

We cannot sit back and blame everyone else because whatever our contribution and level of influence for this very short span which is our lifetime we are custodians of the plant and all its resources. Yes we know we cannot turn the clock back to when stocks were more plentiful, we might not even achieve a recovery in the future but if we do nothing it is us who the future generations will blame and I don't want that as my epitaph.

Initiatives like the MCZs won't just happen, they have to be fought for so use your vote, use your purchasing power, use your influence, use whatever you have but DO SOMETHING...please!!!

Sermon over :-)

I campaign endlessly for mullet. It takes up a dissproportionate part of my life. I haven't made a difference yet....but I'm still fighting.

I have also written emails to countless bodies on shark preservation. But the 'stone-wall' is always going to be politicians...the most A-Moral vaginas that were born. Nothing will stop the gravy-train of income from the sea. Its free food for Britain, rather than imports....so we will be roundly ignored.

The only way to get change would be to form a lobby group as strong as the RSPB. Until that happens nothing will ever change. But trying to get anglers to for a cohesive lobby group is like 'herding cats with water pistols'... we bicker at the slightest thing, we cannot even agree on the thorny issue of C&R, let alone take-on the scumbag commercials, who just see pound-notes swimming around.

I admire your fight, as the same fire is in my belly, but in reality we will just become increasingly frustrated and waste our emotion, effort and time

Yours, still fighting on...
Nick

[theoldfart]

Sorry Loopy, just read your request for help on the "Morning Daybreaker"
Thought the reply might give a few people a giggle so put it on as a thread
Probably get me banned but there you go