"[ Long range beachcasting is a specialist technique that you only need
to
consider if you have very flat, featureless beaches and the fish swim
at
extreme range. It so happens that there are a few venues like this
near
London and home counties journalists naturally write about the
conditions
they experience. Most anglers in the west - with a few exceptions in
Lancashire/Cumbria - could fish successfully for a lifetime without
even
owning a conventional beachcaster. OK, most do use one sometimes when
fishing is slow or the whiting are running.
]"

How does that dismiss 'heavy fishing'? No mention of conger gear there
for
eg.

You called your style light fishing, the opposite would be heavy.

I think that's pretty dismissive considering a lot of people adopt this
technique all over the country.

I agree. It is dismissive. I intended it to be because around most of
the
UK coastline it is rarely the most effective technique.

Quite. I bet I have more fun though :-)

I bet you don't ;-p

Three months to panto season :-)

Oh no it isn't ;-)

snip

My point was that the ban was probably introduced to stop people killing
several hundreds of pounds of fish that aren't going to get eaten. Not
due

Because the (no beachcaster) technique is more effective.

....at catching garfish.

My original point was?

Your original point was that distance casting is a specialist technique
that
only applies to London and the home counties.

To which I replied "Utter bilge"

IF I had said that you would have been right. You quoted it (above, I
left
it in) go re-read it.

My apologies for the mis-interpretation ("only applies to London and the
home counties") of your quote.

However I still think the definition of 'right' is to keep an open mind to
all the techniques available, even specialist techinques such as float
fishing, spinning, fly fishing and plugging ;-)

ETV