Bob Roberts
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Did anyone visit the Chatsworth Angling Fair at the weekend?
Is it me or has the show visibly shrunk in the past few years?
I recall brass bands, cooking demonstrations, loads of food, clothing and garden stands in the past.
This time it appeared to me like yet another Tacklemania job where you pay ?8 to shop for dubious bargains in a field.
Lots of rods for under ?20, everything in this bag for a quid and so on.
Same old faces on the river demonstrations doing the same old tricks. Fly tying tent looked decidedly bare.
We turned up at 11am and were away by noon. Didn't seem to be many people around the show at that time either.
Is this the beginning of the end or am I being a bit jaundiced about the whole thing?
Is it me or has the show visibly shrunk in the past few years?
I recall brass bands, cooking demonstrations, loads of food, clothing and garden stands in the past.
This time it appeared to me like yet another Tacklemania job where you pay ?8 to shop for dubious bargains in a field.
Lots of rods for under ?20, everything in this bag for a quid and so on.
Same old faces on the river demonstrations doing the same old tricks. Fly tying tent looked decidedly bare.
We turned up at 11am and were away by noon. Didn't seem to be many people around the show at that time either.
Is this the beginning of the end or am I being a bit jaundiced about the whole thing?