Is fishing the new golf?

[DavyR]

That would be so cool to be able to call in a bait drop. What a great idea.

 

I'm off to the model air plane shop to see how much they cost. I am sure I can rig up some form of drop mechanism to deposit bait. I could paint it in real tree and go on bombing raids across the lake and best of all, I would have the satisfaction of annoying the hell out of the corduroy, flat cap and tweed jacket brigade.

 

And for those swims that were too inaccessible for a straight drop, you could use specially flattened boilies and go for the "Dambusters" approach...

[tiddlertamer]

That would be so cool to be able to call in a bait drop. What a great idea.

 

I'm off to the model air plane shop to see how much they cost. I am sure I can rig up some form of drop mechanism to deposit bait. I could paint it in real tree and go on bombing raids across the lake and best of all, I would have the satisfaction of annoying the hell out of the corduroy, flat cap and tweed jacket brigade.

 

 

We'll knock your camo bait drop planes out of the skies with our Sopwith Camels...

Edited July 22, 2009 by tiddlertamer

[Vagabond]

I wouldn't compare fishing to golf. I think the only thing they have in common is that they can become obsessive, Expensive, and get you out in the fresh air.

 

No 1 son is a keen golfer (used to play off scratch in his prime).

 

There is a lake adjacent to a local course. I went pike fishing there one blustery wet November morning, came home, said I had had a splendid morning (five pike) and commented on several idiots playing golf in the rain. Son came in a bit later, had had a good morning's golf, he said, and reported he had seen two idiots fishing in the rain at the lake beside the course.

Edited July 23, 2009 by Vagabond

[Neil G]

It all seems to me that a once gentlemanly (even an arrogant working class twerp such as my self used to think so) pastime has now become a catwalk for Mitsubishi Shogun driving plasterers to try and out kit each other in dazzling displays of the latest this, that or the other. Somebody somewhere is making a lot of money.

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Oh that is so true

 

The banks are now lined with white vans and you know the builders are in town trying out new boilies, alarms and bivvies probably all brought by doing overpriced, sub-standard jobs as they aren't the sharpest tools in the box!

[poledark]

Oh dear, shall I hang my head in shame and leave now? I have an electric barrow, two licenses, 4 rods,pod,alarms, the latest Fox bobbins. Hi tec feeders and several different pellet and fish/animal feeds..................................oh yes..........................cardinal sin......................ex plumber with a white van.

 

In mitigation, I also have several poles, lots of different rods/reels, for sea and fly and match fishing.

 

And, I do enjoy my fishing, and don't feel the need to come on to these forums bemoaning how others spend their money and time.

 

Been there, bone most of it in Britain fishing wise, but I suppose if you came across me today on the bank, you would, probably, in your ignorance, see me as the arch enemy.

 

 

Think on, next time you wonder how your tackle shop makes a living.

 

Neil G, as an ex plumber/ builder I resent your description of white van man.

 

Den

Edited July 23, 2009 by poledark

[Vagabond]

Neil G, as an ex plumber/ builder I resent your description of white van man.

 

Thinking back over nearly 70 years of fishing, I have fished with a variety of people, from an "unemployed roofer", a disbarred publican, and a member of the Brighton race gang (that's guys who haunted horse races and made money by card-sharping and worse) on the one hand to landed gentry and an Indian Prince on the other.

 

It is amazing how many very good anglers I have met who come from the building trade. They almost outnumber all other trades/professions put together. The late Roger Standen was an ex-plumber, and I can think of plenty more I won't embarrass by naming. It could be that the several manual skills of the building trade, coupled with the required "nous" of running a business is quite useful in the angling world also.

 

So, Den, you should consider the "white van" a badge of distinction.

 

...and yes, I help run a family building business, although my main career was as an academic. Two simultaneous jobs - the answer to the high cost of being an obsessive angler, although I spend my budget on overseas trips rather than fancy tackle.

[Dick Dastardly]

Two "I think" 's here!

 

First of all I think I understand what the origonal poster Jay was getting at and my second one is that weve lost sight of this and took it as a slur on modern day angling styles and anglers!

 

As golf was for a certain section of the comunity in the 70's ie most of that group played it at some level as it was seen as the thing to do/be seen doing angling (more precisely carp fishing) has become today.

 

Look at the similarities-

 

Many come into it then dissapear again!

 

The equipment and asociated equipment "snobbery" becomes for many more important than the actual sport!

 

Important to be seen wearing the right fashion clothing!

 

The social/drinking side of it becomes very much a part of the scene.

 

Instant status is aforded by your gear and your club and the way you "present" yourself!

 

Newcomers not wanting to learn the ropes but looking for instant shortcuts to sucsess.

 

Blinded by the sales blurb of the pros and sport media.

 

See what Im saying? In the 70's it was cool to fit a round in or two at the weekend and now its a session down the local carp pool! Even the mode of transports the same!

[Shanghai Lilly]

Nicely penned JG!

 

Only in jest! Yea but you’ve also got your ”ultimate anglers” smug middle class twits, reliving A Passion for Angling every weekend. There you’re posh angling book buyers, all clean cork and vintage winches, second-hand knowledge and posh day tickets brigade. It’s all Estate lakes & chalk streams through rose tinted Polaroid’s, following regurgitated blue prints to the sound of Kelly kettles and creaking cane. More hours spent on Ebay than angling.

 

”Mitsubishi Shogun driving plasterers” & someone somewhere making money, yea! Hats off to the guy who presented the “Carp Wheelbarrow” he didn’t beat about the bush, sell them a wheelbarrow and watch them fill it up!

 

/SL (Roofer)

[Worms]

Anyway, where is JG?

 

He drops in an interesting first post that gets loads of people diving in with lighthearted japery and disappears off the scene!

 

My guess is that he's gone for a weeks golfing in his white van with a bit of carping on the side in the evenings......either that or whilst we're all performing on here he's filled a van full of noddies, Eastern Europeans and otters and he's busy emptying all of our favourite stretches!

 

(sorry had to include the last lot they hadn't been mentioned on the thread yet )

[Dales]

We'll knock your camo bait drop planes out of the skies with our Sopwith Camels...

 

Damn I never thought of that, and there is the anti aircraft flak of boilies been catapulted by angry anglers to consider.

 

But then again Tweed man who would be annoyed by a bait plane, would never have a throwing stick or large anti aircraft catapult and he would never stoop so low as to use boilies.

 

I think my bait plane could stand up to a few rounds of traditional fire of maggots, bread and corn

 

Not sure what to do about the Sopworth Camel attacks, maybe I would have to restrict my bombing raids to night fishing.