Eventually, a man just HAS to respond

[Paul Boote 0]

For the record, ladies and gentlemen, lest it be somehow hijacked...

 

 

http://tinyurl.com/azdnr

 

 

[The above "baloney" discovered a little earlier, shortly after getting back from a very pleasant day's roach, dace and chub fishing spent in good company.]

Edited January 29, 2006 by Paul Boote

[Paul Boote 0]

I have just learned that the "baloney" I responded to on Fishing Magic

 

http://tinyurl.com/azdnr

 

was from a piece in the Independent newspaper written by angling journo, Keith Elliott.

 

http://sport.independent.co.uk/general/article341681.ece

 

The press, eh? The Dangling Times yesterday, the Indie today, our pastime tomorrow...

[jeepster 1]

you're responding to yourself now paul, you need to have a word..........

[Elton 172]

I read a review of that book here once

[argyll 0]

Go on Paul put the Boote in

 

'Never quite recovered' indeed

[jeepster 1]

don't i remember that just a few weeks ago you were posting links to your old mates website? when that book got a favourable mention?

 

oh and paul, i fished a bit in the DCR too, can't quite remember where now, was part of a filming trip about gorilla conservation, i wasn't quite as intrepid as you though, the dug outs the locals were using scared me a bit too much to relax in them

Edited January 29, 2006 by jeepster

[Paul Boote 0]

don't i remember that just a few weeks ago you were posting links to your old mates website? when that book got a favourable mention?

 

oh and paul, i fished a bit in the DCR too, can't quite remember where now, was part of a filming trip about gorilla conservation, i wasn't quite as intrepid as you though, the dug outs the locals were using scared me a bit too much to relax in them

 

You clearly must be a tad delusional, jeep. Links to my old mate's website? What website? (Don't bother, I generate my own laughs.)

 

As for the Congo...

 

Well, look at this way, fishing-wise, then decide if you would decently want to effing Angle there - you know, with faffing little rods and lines (sponsored, naturally)...

 

Four million dead in the region in recent years from civil war.

 

Estimated 20,000 women and children dying every month - STILL - from its fall-out (I can access the recent World Health Org. report, courtesy of the BBC, if you like).

 

And a few media 'heroes' and, er, "Anglers", NOW, want to build their reputations and some future fat-arse incomes on effing fishing there...?

 

Get real.

Edited January 29, 2006 by Paul Boote

[jeepster 1]

not sure what the civil war has to do with anything, and do you mean the congo, or the DCR? two very different places.

 

i fished there as i was there anyway, to not to have taken advantage of it would have been a crime

 

i'd certainly like to 'get real' is there a course i can go on?

[Paul Boote 0]

not sure what the civil war has to do with anything, and do you mean the congo, or the DCR? two very different places.

 

i fished there as i was there anyway, to not to have taken advantage of it would have been a crime

 

i'd certainly like to 'get real' is there a course i can go on?

 

 

Both sides, Brazzaville and Kinshasa; both total horrors. One might be a little less SoCal High School Cheerleader "E-u-u-w-w-w", but decently fishing for sport...?

 

 

A course?

 

Well...

 

Think of the future.

 

Stop flying everywhere for five-pence-ha'penny.

 

Drive a car that does more miles to the gal. than, say, a Jeep.

 

Go fishing locally (use cheap bread at all times, if not cheap tackle).

 

A few pointers, then (but watch out for the rogue one that catches you, belatedly, unexpectedly, deep in the self-important arse...).

Edited January 29, 2006 by Paul Boote

[geffaz 0]

dam i just typed out a massive one and its just gone!

boll**ks!

 

fishing over the line!