Peoples perception of fisherman

[stooby]

Hi All,

 

I turned 30 a few months back, and I only started fishing a few months ago, but when I started everyone, and I mean pretty much everyone took the mick some what and started saying things like "Have you just turned 70" or, "Are you taking you slippers", you know, the kind of comments that would indicate fisherman are all of the older generation... but from the lakes and rivers I've fished at so far, that's just not the case..... so my question is, why do people see it this way???

 

Cheers,

 

Stooby...

[DavyR]

So my question is, why do people see it this way???

 

I'm tempted to say "Because they don't have the imagination to understand people with interests different to their own, other than as tired old stereotypes".

 

But then I'm a self-avowed misanthropist, so I would say that.

[Elton]

Show all your 30-year old male mates April Vokey's website and see how many of them suddenly find their own passion for angling!

[scottca]

If I would have seen that website sooner, I would have started fishing a LONG time ago

[Andy_1984]

she's a bit of alright aint she. wouldn't mind that on the end of my rod.................... the salmon you dirty minded old trouts!

 

how come ive still never seen any women like this on the bank. infact ive probably only seen one woman on the bank fishing in my entire angling history

[terry t shirt]

With have our own pin ups on AN

maybe janet, lynne and emma and the other ladies might make us a calender. to raise a few pennies.

 

 

 

Edited April 24, 2010 by terry t shirt

[Vagabond]

Ask not for people's perception of anglers.

 

Rather, consider we anglers' perception of other people.

 

I'll give you an example.

 

Pete, Chevin and I were driving to a fishing venue very early one Saturday morning.

 

I was driving, and being obstructed by WOMBATS (WOnt Move over Because Am Totally Stupid) dawdling in the fast lane.

 

"Move over you @££**% wally" I said "You are wasting three lots of valuable fishing time"

 

"Hmmm" said Pete, "When I come to power, only anglers will be allowed on the road at weekends"

 

"Huh!" snorted Chevin, "When I come to power, only anglers will be allowed to live above ground"

[Leon Roskilly]

It's changing.

 

When I started, it seemed to me that nearly all anglers were pretty damn old.

 

Nowadays they all seem so very young.

 

[dean in devon]

hay lad don't worry i'm 23 been fishing for years but din't learn technique till this year (using very old fashion rules and techniques) but i am fully uptodate, but i get called gay,old man, why don't you retire, pathetic, the lot (my age group are not nice to young fishermen/women) my wife and my kids love it and we love the fact that we can camp over night for the same price as i would being on my own, it's great..

so as i like to put it if they not happy with what i like/do/am then they can F*&k off and mind there own buissness as it's my life and i will enjoy it to how i see fit. so don't let them put you off mate enjoy the "SPORT" as that is what fishing is classed at aswell..

so there we have it thats my two pennys

 

 

 

 

Dean

[Colin Payne]

http://www.facebook.com/wfnhookinup

 

Just a little something to wet your appetite!

 

 

Myself and a workmate struggle to get the time to go fishing together and this weekend our time off has coincided for Sunday and off we are going. An older driver at work just looks at us and shakes his head saying " why bother just sitting there watching this float thing go up and down all day, doesn't it get boring" This is the man who comes to work even if he doesn't have a job to do to escape his missis who gives him serious grief (divorce in the offing)! All we can say to him is if he'd rather get that grief or be shoving a coach up and down the country as we normally do who's got the problem? 49 years old, been fishing since I was a nipper, ain't never gonna change!