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    Re: NZACA Archived Message

    Posted by Hangler on 23/5/2012, 8:49 pm, in reply to "Re: NZACA"

    Thank you for your reply Jaypeegee, I will try to elaborate for understanding. First may I suggest a positive way the NZACA can raise its profile to the angler, a simple step that would incorporate awareness to all.

    I would imagine that all surfcasting clubs run an annual tournament, this for a fund raising activity. It's generally clubs who are most concerned at strengthening the viability and workability of the governing body. If the clubs are really serious on this issue why not make it a condition of entering these large tournaments, you must be a member of the NZACA, either an individual membership or through a club membership? This is a simple, cost effective suggestion with the benefit of attracting many more members to the NZACA and possibly clubs.

    Elitist attitudes. may I suggest you read back on the many criticisms voiced on this message board regarding people who chose kites, kontikis or torpedoes for their fishing pleasure. Many angers who fish only with a rod and line openly voice their distain at those who chose other methods. There are widely imaginative claims these people drag in limit bags every time they set a line from the beach ... utter rubbish. Yes there are times when a line retrieved will bring in a reasonable catch, but these times are few and far between.

    There is criticism these people use twenty-five hooks ... not let's just break for a truce on that one. Watch the Kahawhai spinning brigade standing shoulder to shoulder casting at Awatoto, they are having a cast at approximate once every a minute ... sixty cast an hour. Now that is two and a half times the amount of hooks an hour a long liner is using and that is the average time it takes to make and retrieve a set. What right have those who fish with a rod got to put a long line fisherman down? ... None. Some surfcasters believe their method is the only acceptable way of taking fish and frown on others. Why frown on those who use a torpedo? I suggest a quick look at the pictures in the NZ Fishing news will quickly dispel that myth, there are always pictures of rod anglers, usually in boats with a box load of fish, far more than the average long line from shore will return, especially in the Hawke's Bay area.

    Right let's step into the competition or tournament area. Most of those participating will take every fish they catch as it may be in the prizes. Under normal fishing conditions many of those fish would have been returned alive. Isn't this detrimental to the fish stock on those beaches?

    Sorry I have digressed from the original subject but I have answered the question and made a positive suggestion, and I believe that is what the topic's author was seeking.


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