Realistic Flies

[Wildfisher]

Sure there is nothing at all wrong with qualifications. What does concern me though is "formalisation"  of simple hobbies like fishing. We live in a more and more regulated world. Twin pronged bureaucratic attacks from Brussels and from our  own Muppets on most things we do.   How long before, for the sake of Europe wide "harmonisation",  we are not allowed to go fishing at all without passing some "exam". Couldn't happen? Are you certain about that?  It has already happened in Germany.  Such moves are detrimental to angling, chip away at  the numbers who play the game. The first steps towards a ban. We must always be on guard against bureaucrats  who believe they know better than we do, be they in government or under the cloak  of some "representative" or self appointed "governing  body".