Only just realised that fishing is allowed

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  1. Sup

    SuperTyke Well-Known Member

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    How is that allowed? It's not exercise and it's not essential? It's sitting for hours at the side of a river, lake or pond relaxing and having a nice day out.

    Why is that allowed but nobody else can sit in a park?
     
    SuperTyke, Jan 22, 2021
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    Hooky feller Well-Known Member

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    Sounds a bit fishy to me.
    As for having a nice day out. Have you checked the weather and temperatures lately.
     
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    If it wasn't an enjoyable day out they wouldn't do it would they?
     
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    Hooky feller Well-Known Member

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    Puddled if you ask me.
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    Depends how and where you do it really, where I fish it’s busy if you see two other people and it’s more of an exercise because I don’t stay in one spot more than an hour.
    It’s good for your mental state too
     
    North Yorks Red, Jan 22, 2021
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    You've clearly never been fishing
     
    Jay, Jan 22, 2021
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    I have packed in fishing after seeing a special needs kid bludgeon a rainbow trout to death with a wooden priest,the kid was definitely not on the top score list on whack a mole machine on Scarborough front
     
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    Just sit in the park fiddling with your rod and tackle. You never know, you might get a bite.
     
    Old Goat, Jan 22, 2021
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    That's the whole reason I'm banned from parks in the first place. It's nothing to do with covid really
     
    SuperTyke, Jan 22, 2021
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    I went once, as a kid. Walked an hour to the spot, then on his first cast my mate got his line tangled up in the tree behind. Took forever to untangle the flipping thing. Then we walked home again. Never been since.
     
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    lol
     
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    Govt accepted the ‘mental health’ argument.

    Canoeing and paddle boarding also allowed.
     
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    I suspect it's because you have to pay at most fishing venues and you don't want the poor land/pond owner to miss out on his income do you.
     
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    as a kid my dad took me, but was too tight to buy proper bait and we only had bread,never caught anything for a few hours ,then he fell asleep as he had been supping cans, by now I was bored and was playing throw stones up a tree with my back to the lake, turned round to see the rod disappearing into the lake, ran up to bank edge but was too late, my dad woke up and gave me holy hell for not watching the rod and we trudged off home,well after he finally started the cortina,moaning all way home that we must have caught moby dick and it was my fault, I loved him but he was a hard taskmaster my dad
     
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    Yet I can’t walk round a golf course in case the COVID gets me
     
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    sorry I have resisted for minutes but got to do it, if you catch covid on a golf course you will not die but could be a little under par , sorry but I had to:)
     
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    I am thankful that whenever I went fishing as a youngster, I didn't catch anything and gave it up.
     
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    Worm your way out of that one, Supertyke.. :)
     
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    Was the Priest OK? Worried ...
     
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    no covered in blood and left strewn on the floor, it was horrific
     
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