Birmingham Anglers Association

Thx Stewpar! Managed a couple of pounds of small roach and perch on pinkie over a bit of ground bait. Lovely afternoon and a hint of spring. My earlier rant about photographing and weighing every fish goes back to years ago, when I spotted a bloke on the opposite bank to where I was fishing at Arley. He took out his keep net and placed 4 decent sized barbel on his landing net on a shingle bank. He left them there flapping about and then proceeded to slowly pack away. I remonstrated with him and his reply was that he could get a better photo of the fish when they had been out of the water for four or five minutes and had calmed down. Appalling. We should all try and get fish back into the water asap - where they belong.