Wait, what?!
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I don’t know if it still exists but there used to be some club waters where you were required to use a dry fly and cast only to a rising fish. You weren’t allowed to practice C&R either.
Sign is in England and, judging from some comments about it, relates to the propensity of Polish and eastern Europeans to overfish an area and take fish over the established limits and in violation of catch and release regulations. I’ve seen a similar thing happen around here with certain immigrant groups. Certainly not politically correct, but probably a valid concern.
It probably will be the UK.
We don’t eat “coarse fish”…chub, perch, bream, roach, dace, etc. Coarse species are catch and release, pike being an exception. The Eastern Europeans do eat them and this is causing problems at recreation lakes and fishing lakes. Many club lakes won’t allow Eastern Europeans as they do not observe “catch and release”.
Hence the signs.Guess they have been feeding all of the children and dogs…
I have spent a lot of time in several of the Eastern European countries and have never found myself put against anything similar. As a matter of fact, they have always made me feel like family and welcomed me to anything that they had. I was always welcomed and invited to fish private waters and “yes” they did keep some of the fish for family dinners but not always. I have a very strong dislike for elitist that feel all others are beneath them, are not as intellectually developed as they or are entitled to some sort of supreme social standing due to a place of birth. Maybe after all of the fisheries are overpopulated and dead fish are floating all over the surface, will people finally realize that ones recreation should never supersede anthers desire and/or need. Eastern Bloc does not even exist anymore and to use such a term just demonstrates an extreme case for attempting to promote a desperate lack of equality, through a naive form of arrogance it is. If it was private, it would be marked “Private”, this seems to be more of a malicious purpose type of signage.
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