Blimey, time is moving fast this year!

Plenty of work & stuff to do during the close season on our rivers, so not had the chance to get on the local canal as yet, suppose it's always gonna be that way, not long left of the annual three months closure, not much left of April & it'll soon be May, then June will only be around the corner.
Doesn't time fly by when your busy? Well I certainly find it does. It has been nice to have a rest from the fishing & to be able to get all the other stuff done, this last week I've been sorting out one of my sheds in the back garden which is now nearly finished, just needs a new coat of paint, not in bad condition to say I've had it for the last 5+years, unlike the other one which had seen better days & had to be dismantled.
Next plan of attack is to start preparing the driveway for concreting & then hopefully finish off the garden which I've plans to set a lawn on, all this & try to get a few sessions in on the local canal before the beginning of the new season, on top of work commitments, should allow for plenty of time, me thinks.

I see a certain blogger has been spouting on about the alleged threatening messages he's received! how very dare he after all the torment he's induced else where, now personally I wouldn't threaten anybody over the Internet, because I prefer to do it face to face in person, so if this clown assumes the retort to "provocate more snide rumours &/or dirty lies" then we may just have to meet up some day some time or other to sort out the situation, man to man if you like! if the allegations are aimed at oneself otherwise I've no interest in Internet pranks what ever yer wanna call'em, after all tis way beyond the joke now.
I used to enjoy havin a laugh & a joke, just being one of the lads at one point in time, but alas there are those whom like to push it that little too far & that to me is where you need to draw the line, any case that's enough of talking about all that kinda crap, time to move on, there are plenty of better things on the Internet to amuse yourselves with at any given time.  

Now I've heard in the news that our government are planning to combat illegal immigration, well good luck to' em because from where I'm situated it's to little too late, should've been done years ago, shame on those that didn't listen to Enoch Powell, though, eh, when they had the chance, after all the man was right with what he was talking about, OK a little before my time but there are plenty of stories to read & videos to watch out there on the big World Wide Web that explain how right Enoch were about the mass immigration problems we were to receive years later down the line, now I'd seriously like to see exactly what David Cameron & crew are going to do to sought it out.

So there are still ongoing discussions/debates about the reasons for & against a close(d) season on our rivers, on various websites, some believe nobody on either side have come up with anything constructive to remain with the status quo or go ahead & abolish.
I'm against the status quo because we have still waters & canals, also commercial coarse fisheries open year round that prove to have no scientific detriment, so why are rivers different because they are flowing water? You would only have to go diving in any still water during windy conditions to see the undertow created by said conditions to know otherwise, which leads us back to why are rivers different.
I can understand the need for a closure on waters that are designated Sites of Special Scientific Interest but not all rivers & any other waters need to be shut down for three whole months.
If it were given a trial period on the basis of scientific research, one way or the other we would then be able to see whether or not there is any detriment or not, if there were then the status quo could be reverted back to & if there weren't then those whom shout up & down to keep the closure enforced would look silly & be proven wrong.
For me it's about time within the whole of angling in general be it coarse, sea, game & specialist got together & united rather than the old skool labour governments way of divide & conquer myopia because then we'd at least get somewhere near to sorting out the age old problem of the close(d) season enforcement, because if you ask me the closure is actually in breach of a certain new law called theft by finding, meaning those who want to keep the closure are taking away from us who want to abolish the closure, therefore the "theft by finding law becomes breached!" & another thing if you were to go over the pond to Europe you would see there is no closure on their rivers with non what so ever detriments of any kind, just the usual situations like pollution incidents just like here in the UK, the facts are there & just need putting forward.

Another thing that annoys me about the annual three months coarse fish closure is that there are regional byelaw's allowing folk to fish for eels with an half inch gape hook, doesn't matter what bait you use as long as the hook is the right size, that is just in the midlands area, nowhere else 'I.e Severn, Trent area', so what is the point of the closure if you have regional byelaw's allowing to partake in fishing for certain species in one area but not the rest of the country, smacks of the old divide & conquer again, doesn't it?
OK when the old National Rivers Authority was disbanded & the environment agency formed, the regional rod licences were united to one for country, but the only problem there is the prices keep going up! So you see that smacks of the old political rule "if your going to give something in one hand, something needs to be taken from the other!" Be it a no win situation for us unfortunately that's the ways things are always going to be, unless everybody were to unite, stand their ground with the government & say no, but alas it far to little to late again.
Some also believe the abolishment of the closure will never happen in their lifetime, still remains to be seen though, it might happen sooner than most think!.
Alright it may take a large group of anglers to put their money where their mouths are to do the deeds of getting the closure abolished, I certainly would contribute to it with my hard earned, if only the rest would also unite & do the same, it may take at least a couple of seasons of research to achieve the info required but these scientists don't come cheap so, if there are anybody out there who don't mind also contributing to cause let us know, I'm sure we could all work something out!.

Anyway I'm ending this blog post here, because I've lots to do in so little time.