Thank Paul for your comments I like cooking too in fact I have more cookery books than fishing books which number over 200, another obssessive behaviour pattern of mine I fear. Sorry bout not getting back sooner but I have a day job believe it or not. Just come back from doing a local school talk, 20 youngsters who were asking questions like there was no tomorrow,it was a favour (FOC) for my best mate who is an art teacher at the school (I'm not trying to advertise my services here). Really enjoyed the enthusiasm and gave them all a Shimano goodie bag (is that okay to mention on this sensitive site???) Keeping the family happy is something I have to do more with at the moment.
Now dear old CA who are you???? and please I can't believe your comment about me doing a sort of advert on my first thread, I might be wrong but I think it only reads "watch this space" I just thought when it was appropriate I'd be able to give the site some of my first impressions of the new eagerly anticipated reels. But instead of seeing the postive side to this you choose to be cynical and take issue with anglers making money out of promoting fishing tackle, your perogative of course. I must take issue with you in general context, you said you thought most good anglers could make a name for themselves youat some point if they had publicised themselves, nobody held a gun to their head to keep inconspicuous and I admire them , you must be talking about specimen hunters or carp anglers I guess. As a former match angler my results were always published in the match returns (I didn't have say in the matter) so how many match anglers have become 'name' anglers across the broad spectrum of fishing disciplines........ the reality is there are not many anglers who can do this line of work because of supply and demand, or when push comes to shove deliver the goods.
There are hundreds of brilliant past and present footballers but I don't see many heading up match of the day or being pundits !Why is that then? cos they kept their goal scoring celebrations muted and refused aftermatch interviews.......hello!
You should at the very least be big enough apologise for your incorrect conclusions about my motives for coming on line. If a "watch this space" posting on this sight it a blatent plug for products then I'm wasting my time coming up with ad strap line ideas for Shimano at work,maybe I should be working for Saatchi & Saatchi. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!
Oh was that too loud!!!!! come on CA admit it publicly you got the wrong end of the stick not me, the company I work for have a healthy advertising budget without having to resort to some kind of cyber pseudo subliminal postvertorials freebie cheapshots.
Good Look and Great Fishing!
Jan Porter aka redcyberfish!!!!