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Land-based game fishing

Sigh... there are problems with the article Land-based game fishing you created. It appears to present a highly parochial point of view, and one is left wondering if you happen to live close to Jervis Bay. Can you provide some citations. You also appear to be using the account Sportfishextreme as a sockpuppet for 122.108.180.125. This is very much frowned on. You have also, yet again, inserted your repeatedly rejected link for Land Based Marlin Fishing. It seems you have created this stub article merely as pretext to try and slip your link in yet again. The site you are trying to promote has a lot of commercial links, some "galleries" which are of no interest except perhaps to the people in the pictures, and a minor "forum" on which almost no discussion is taking place about fishing. Okay – I'll cut you some slack here. Persuade me why your link belongs in Wikipedia, and adds value to your article. Otherwise the link will have to go. And unless you can do more work on the article, and find some citations, it will need to go as well. And please be more upfront. --Geronimo20 (talk) 06:07, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Whatever.. I live about 1200 kms from Jervis Bay. Brisbane Qld, Look it up. The main reason these things happened is that I didn't realise how wikipedia worked and I assumed it was random people removing things. I do have some understanding now. However if you feel its not of value then remove it. I dont want to be wasting your or my time. There is only one site on the web dedicated to land based game fishing and that is the site I linked to. More than 95% of Marlin caught from land are caught on the east coast of Australia and most of them are from 1 spot "The Tubes" at Jervis Bay and it is world famous amongst hardcore anglers for this reason. [1]. By the way that is the owner of the site not me. You can count the number of people who have managed to catch one of these things from the rocks on your 2 hands. In New Zealand they have hooked them but never landed them as they get 300kilo+ monsters there. It is a relatively new site and still trying to get all its resources in place. The links to sponsors are unpaid for, they are done as favours for people. I started the wiki page with the hope that some of the people who participate in the sport will get motivated to do a better job on the page than myself. Anyway remove what you think needs removing. As for land based shark fishing it is a subset of land based game fishing and is alot easier to achieve a shark catch than a marlin catch.

Hi Sportfishextreme. I apologize for being slow responding, my end of the world is chaos at the moment. I found some bits and pieces which I'll add to the article. I think we can make it work. It would be good if the webmaster of the extreme fishing website would extend it to have international scope. I'm sure there are bits and pieces that could be picked up all round the world, but if we are going to get a good article out of this then we will probably have to do some hard yards. I grew up rock fishing in the Bay of Islands. We mainly caught snapper and kawhai, but sometimes when we saw bigger fish, we would use heavier tackle. Very occasionally we would catch a kingfish or shark or big ray, but never a marlin, not even a tiny one.

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