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"To all Readers of this discourse, but especially to the honest Angler"  I.W.

Just AnotherAngler has fished around and about for a good bit now and set up this site in 2005 to waffle about fishing and generally indulge himself. If you can see the fun in catching small perch and gudgeon, then you may well like this site but if you don't, then AnotherAngler thinks it's Just possible you are missing the point, but it's a free country. Well mostly.

JAA is a "pleasure angler", which is to say I do not spend days and nights camped by a water, trying for the 30 pounder that I know is in there, mainly because the owner put it in, it's been caught 3 times already (this year) and has a name. So have my children's goldfish*.

I am a bit obsessive about knots though, to be fair. And surface fishing for carp come to that.

Just will be happily expounding his views on fishing in general, tackle and methods, plus an occasional fishing diary. I dare say I'll bung in some old fashioned rambling about fishing "when I were a lad". Possibly the occasional rant as well. Well, it's my website...which I hope you find as it is written. 'Just' plans to stay anonymous, but if you think you've guessed my secret identity, email. I may even own up.

It's just possible this site contains information unsuitable for overly sensitive folk with low self-esteem, no sense of humour and/or an irrational belief system. It's also possible to mistake me for someone who gives a stuff. However I am open to reasoned debate on most topics. If you believe you have some kind of "right of reply", reserve a domain name, pay a hosting service and write your own website.

If you see anyone you think is me and they are using a keep-net, barbed hooks, live bait, 2lb line, halibut pellets, trout pellets or boilies, it's not me. There is no chance anyone using a "bolt rig" is me either. Anyone using an 'anti-eject rig' (the gin-trap of fishing), a spod or a method feeder is not me either. Never going to happen. I never have and cannot see why I might ever kiss a fish.

If you see anyone using treble hooks it's not me either (I just don't like them, nasty spiky things, no other reason).

Remember, the only sure way to catch fish every time, is buy a barrel and then buy some fish - you'd blank eventually even so...

* 'Goldy' and 'Finny'. Well the Marmite-Angler was only 2¼ at the time. Mind you, they've been recently joined by 'Crucial' the Crucian, 'Mr. Smith' the Common and 'Jaws' the Mirror. 'Jaws', that's what happens when boys name fish. Heh.