Fatty Will nail his colours to the mast and declare that he is a long term card carrying S&TA now renamed S&TC member, so does put his money where his mouth is.
Personally Fatty has the rights to a couple of Salmon Beats in the land of the mighty Jock and fishes for Salmon and Trout therein but will always come down in favour of worm fishing as it is not the ignorant fish catching method that is portrayed by many but is in fact a legitimate and noble technique if utilised in the upstream method. The looks you get should you ask in a local Scottish bar where you can purchase worms is priceless and always gets a response
Rich Land Owners can be a strange mix of reasonable and totally unreasonable people, with an almost choleric response to wormers and poachers...often lumping the two together in their whisky addled brains.
This Mole, yeah him, has spent an inordinate amount of time trying to change ingrained attitudes but failing for the most part. Sides are too established to change with reasoned argument but glugging fine Whiskies in the process is a wondrous thing especially should some decent meat and tatty pies be brought out too
It would seem that the attempt to ban the worm on the Wye is just another example of stupidity reaching a worrying conclusion
Let's hope reason does come to the fore and energies are put to more sensible ways to alleviate the Salmon, or lack thereof in rivers, problem but some how doubt it.
Oh well.
As ever,....
Moley