I stumbled on a Facebook post from Anglers Mail stating that a venue had banned white bread as a bait. At the time of writing this post there has been 55 replies already, some of which seem a little over the top, many believing it is stupid or that they will just continue to fish with bread as they have always done before. I haven’t read the full story, I very rarely buy angling magazines these days but I understand it is a private venue that has impossed the ban so personally I have no issue with it, the owner of the venue allows people to fish for a fee, the fish and the venue belong to the owner and they have every right to decide what rules anglers have to abide by, don’t they?
If you don’t like the rules at a venue then don’t go there, it’s as simple as that, no matter if you agree or disagree with the rules, they are there, deal with it and comply. Some commenters have stated that these kind of rules will lead to fishing being banned all together, in my opinion that is complete ignorance and is just a knee jerk reaction. It would be interesting how many people have commented with a negative view have even fished the venue anyway, my guess would be not a lot.
So my solution, fish rivers. I fished the Norfolk Broads rivers exclusively last year, not stepping on to a commercial water at all. If I want to fish a bait then I can fish it, in fact when the 16th comes along I might even go bream fishing with a couple of loaves of the ever useful white bread.
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