Angling contradictions :

[RUDD]

Lets see how many we can come up with?

 

Specimen anglers wear drab colours so as to not be seen.

Matchmen wear bright colours so they are seen.

 

Barbed hook.

Barbless hook.

 

Using shiny stainless steel hardware while wearing realtree clothing!

[Dick Dastardly]

The term "coarse" angling when using size 22 hooks to 1.1 bottoms!

[Mat Hillman]

Walking about softly so as not to scare the fish, then lobbing in a bloody great method feeder!

[wotnobivvy]

Hammering in banksticks and then complaining about not getting a bite

 

Fish bite better when it rains. They don't but the angler does get wet

 

Calling sleeping in a tent (bivvy) fishing.

 

Buying remote sounder boxes, then sitting further away from the rods than the EA maximum

 

Being a crap fisherman and blaming the fish for not biting

[Peter M]

going fishng to get away from it all then watching telly in your bivvy.

[GlennB]

Keeping out of sight so as not to spook the fish, but then waving a 12m pole over their noses.

 

Fishing a lake margin by casting 70yd over to it.

[Cartman]

Dressing from head to toe in the latest camo gear

 

 

And then casting 100 yards out into a lake!

[Jim Murray]

What about using an imitation of a drowning budgerigar to bash out stockie rainbows and calling it "flyfishing" (rather than "rodding"),

 

Jim.

[Peter Waller]

Camo everything with polished stainless rod pods!

 

Using an imitation of a drowning parrot to bash out pike and calling that fly-fishing!

 

National Federation of Anglers, with just how many members out of just how many anglers?

 

Real Tree Hardwood camo pattern and then sitting in amongst autumn reeds!

[kleinboet]

Keeping out of sight so as not to scare the fish in the margins and then putting up an umbrella at the first sign of rain!