First off, this is not meant as a criticism of any members that are also anglers, but as a possible talking point.
I took this a week or so ago in my local park. Ar first glance it looks like a daily run of the mill shot of a young gull, until you notice it can't put down it's right foot. Looking closer it's because there's a loop of fishing line wrapped around the bird's ankle. While I'm not one to deny people simple pleasures, there is still a big problem with lengths of fishing line being left around and catching wildlife such as this. With the best will in the world, it's not possible to ensure no line is lost but I wonder how much effort anglers put into ensuring this doesn't happen...
Gulls and anglers by Andy Mulhearn, on Flickr
As an aside, the park has two sections to the lake - one fishable, the other not. The one that isn't fishable has carp in it as big as some of the mallards so there are often anglers sitting on the boundary between the two that accidentally cast into the wrong part of the lake. Which just proves there are people who seem willing to break the rules in every walk of life, even something as bucolic as angling.
I took this a week or so ago in my local park. Ar first glance it looks like a daily run of the mill shot of a young gull, until you notice it can't put down it's right foot. Looking closer it's because there's a loop of fishing line wrapped around the bird's ankle. While I'm not one to deny people simple pleasures, there is still a big problem with lengths of fishing line being left around and catching wildlife such as this. With the best will in the world, it's not possible to ensure no line is lost but I wonder how much effort anglers put into ensuring this doesn't happen...
Gulls and anglers by Andy Mulhearn, on Flickr
As an aside, the park has two sections to the lake - one fishable, the other not. The one that isn't fishable has carp in it as big as some of the mallards so there are often anglers sitting on the boundary between the two that accidentally cast into the wrong part of the lake. Which just proves there are people who seem willing to break the rules in every walk of life, even something as bucolic as angling.
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