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

Just AnotherAngler has dangled around for 30 odd years and in 2005, fenced of this personal bit of internet negative equity to woffle 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 it's just possible you are missing the point, but it's a free country. Mostly. This site is not really about the fish I catch, it's really about why I fish at all.^§

JAA^‡ is a "pleasure angler", which is to say I don't 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.

Here I'll expound on fishing in general, tackle, methods, plus an occasional diary. Possibly the occasional rant as well. Well, it's my website...which I hope you find as it is written and 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 possible to mistake me for someone who gives a stuff about opinions. 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" or fixed lead 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. Anyone ledgering is not likely to be me, I don't really enjoy ledgering, but freelining on the other hand - that might be me. 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...

"nullius in verba" - "on the word of nobody" ^†...and be Lucky...

* '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. P.S. July 2010: Mr. Smith didn't make it. R.I.P.

† The Royal Society's motto 'Nullius in verba', roughly translates as 'Take nobody's word for it', and is an expression of the determination to withstand the domination of authority (such as the bo££ocks of "Social Theory" or "Climate Change") and to verify all statements by an appeal to facts determined by experiment...or more roughly "That's what you claim, now prove it or push off".