Angling advances and changes

[Steve Walker]

I think the aesthetic has changed. Tackle, particularly terminal tackle, used to look crafted. It's now meant to look like weaponry. "Gentle art" versus the machine.

 

 

 

 

[Dick Dastardly]

Where did you get that bottom photo from Steve?

 

Also I do agree with you but spotting that old glass LERC roach pole in the bottom right corner of the middle photo made me realise how lucky we have been!

[Steve Walker]

Where did you get that bottom photo from Steve?

 

http://www.greysfishing.com/index.php?if=v...pc=&pid=200

 

Also I do agree with you but spotting that old glass LERC roach pole in the bottom right corner of the middle photo made me realise how lucky we have been!

 

There is that! I fancy a new pole, I bet even a 150 quid job would blow my old 11m Browning into the weeds. I don't pole fish often enough to justify it, though.

 

On the subject of poles, weren't cane "roach poles" once a staple of Thames angling?

[Dunk Fairley]

Ladies and Gents, I can now say I've found the ULTIMATE in tackle developement!!! After much searching and prying into the darkest pits of despair (the local tackle shop's "Carp" department), I managed to find.....wait for it....wait for it

 

A CAMOFLAGED BOG ROLL HOLDER!!!! It even has clips on the straps from which you hang it in the bushes.

 

I'll admit that I had to deliberate between this very useful bit of kit, the padded and elasticated cutlery set holder and the set of tripod legs for your baiting up bucket, but no, the bog roll holder it had to be! Thank god there are tackle companies out there who are willing to pay for research and developement departments, so that they can release such items to their "Field Testers". These essentials are then spotted sneaking out at secret conferences, in order that the lucky anglers can have an edge on us old fashioned types.

 

Now, I won't have to resort to a dock leaf and spade. Nor will I have to use the aluminium plate my brother first took to Scout camp in 1968, and I won't have to put my bucket on the ground, where it might get muddy. Hooray!

[Tony U]

Dunk

Is that a holder for Camouflaged bog roll or a camo holder; or even both for ****'s sake and if it is how do you find it in a bush at night when you are desperate for a poo after a vindaloo reheated on your camo stove and twenty tins of Carlsberg Special Brew.

[gozzer]

Dunk

Is that a holder for Camouflaged bog roll or a camo holder; or even both for ****'s sake and if it is how do you find it in a bush at night when you are desperate for a poo after a vindaloo reheated on your camo stove and twenty tins of Carlsberg Special Brew.

 

I was wondering that Tony.

 

If it 's camo' bog roll, is it patterned to 'blend in', before or after use?

 

John.

[BoldBear]

The 5 most significant changes to have affected my fishing over the years ?

 

1. The trend away from the rivers. but this is benificial to me as I can now fish miles of unspoilt rivers; out of town for Barbel etc.

 

2. The end to the enforced closed season on Lakes and Canals. with the decision whether to retain a closed season on a fishery now decided by the club membership.

 

3. The stocking of some huge foriegn fish, sometimes illegally that makes a joke of the British Record fish lists.

 

4. The modern times 'spring virema' epdemic's. (which may or may not be related to the above) which we never used to have.

 

5. The last thing which doesn't really affect my fishing; but makes me sad is the mass influx of Instant Carp Anglers; I don't mean the type who have done their apprentiship on other forms of angling and learnt how to read rivers and different types of stillwaters and learnt how to catch different types of fish and to appreciate catching them; before specialising; I mean the begginer who decides to start Carp fishing from the start, gets his mum to buy him a pair of carp rods, buzzers and a bedchair; then goes carp fishing; and then usually when he has got fedup a few years later he then gives it all up, and we sadly lose another angler from our ranks.. The sad thing is that he thinks that all other fish are not worth fishing for (if he knew how to catch them other than by accident on carp gear).

[Peter M]

i have used Camouflaged toilet accessories for years, they are called the bushes.