The things you’ve said – 65 years of your letters in Angling Times...
ISSUE 2 JULY 10, 1953
In response to our issue one story about Angling Times stocking rivers with tagged perch, with a £20 prize for the angler who caught the first one... HAVING looked forward to the publication of Angling Times, I was taken aback by its front page headline. I felt that the new competition introduced by you is making our sport like many others – a means of personal gain.
The first mental picture your story gave me was of a fairground with celluloid fish in a tank and children having a go at them with a stick, a pin and some string.
No sir, this is not angling as we know it. F Collins, London
ISSUE 404 MARCH 31, 1961
CONGRATULATIONS to Angling Times, which surpasses any other paper. It amazes me, this fairness shown in this paper.
When you make a mistake or misprint, you apologise, not like other papers that try to make excuses. You also speak out against anything with which you disagree. Graham Davies, Thorpe, Norfolk
ISSUE 847 SEPTEMBER 25, 1969
In response to Peterborough’s Robin Harris winning the World Championships in Czechoslovakia...
As a fellow British angler, I would like to offer my sincere congratulations to Robin Harris on his wonderful success in winning the World Championships, and to say thank goodness for Angling Times, because we would never know England had a world champion angler if we only had TV, radio and daily papers to rely on for such news.
Thank you and once again, well done Robin Harris. D McArdle, Battersea
ISSUE 1160 SEPTEMBER 25, 1975
EACH week I read Angling Times only to find reports and pictures of carp. Yet from my own experience and by pooling information from other anglers, I have come to the conclusion that this fish is not as great as it is made out to be.
Judging from the numbers of 20lb carp caught each week, there must be thousands about. Other species, pound for pound, give a far better fight. If, as I suspect, 20lb carp are so numerous, then why don’t the so-called specimen hunters fish for more difficult but equally worthwhile species? M Prior, Hemel Hempstead
ISSUE 2007 DECEMBER 4, 1991
In response to our campaign to get World Champ Bob Nudd voted BBC ... Sports Personality off the Year I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with the plea of England manager Dick Clegg regarding the BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.
The England team should be invited to the ceremony, especially after winning the World Championships.
Even more so Bob Nudd, who successfully defended his individual title this year. G Jordan, Halesowen
ISSUE 2023 MARCH 25 1992
In reponse to our story about forthcoming ‘attractions’ at the Angling ’92 show... PLEASE do not demean lady anglers by running the Miss Angling Times contest. Ladies take their sport very seriously and many fish with the men throughout the season, expecting no privileges, only respect.
I speak for many when I say I consider this competition to be in very bad taste. Surely you are not going to rely on sex symbols to sell your newspaper? May Vince, Evesham
ISSUE 2669 OCTOBER 5, 2004
In response to our story that cormorants could be culled to protect fisheries... ARE we really to persecute a creature for simply following its natural instincts? If so, where do we stop? Are we sure grebes and herons are not a problem too?
I wish someone would tell where all these cormorants are, because I have never seen more than one at any fishery. I hope this cull stops before it goes too far. John Sunderland, Romford