dezza
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Define what you think a traditional angler is?
Is he a tweed/Norfolk jacket and breeks dressed idiot with an ancient cane and lancewood rod, bird quill float and a pack of pith and brains. Does he spend hours rendering down old pigs and sheeps carcases to get chandlers greaves and scratchings.
Or does he insist on using out of date fixed spool Mitchells.
Does he hit the roof when he sees anglers being sponsored, or a plethora of advertising in magazines, even when there were often up to 60 seperate adverts, plus another 50 classifieds in the magazines and books of the late Victorian era.
And sponsorship was all the rage then.
And when you tell him all this, having found out that your self styled traditionalist has never even read Compleat Angler, or even books by Martin, Bailey or Coxon et al, AND when you find out that you are 12 years older than he, he calls you a liar. And then he tries to tell you how wonderful the fishing was in the 20s.
I have met people like this, have you?
Is he a tweed/Norfolk jacket and breeks dressed idiot with an ancient cane and lancewood rod, bird quill float and a pack of pith and brains. Does he spend hours rendering down old pigs and sheeps carcases to get chandlers greaves and scratchings.
Or does he insist on using out of date fixed spool Mitchells.
Does he hit the roof when he sees anglers being sponsored, or a plethora of advertising in magazines, even when there were often up to 60 seperate adverts, plus another 50 classifieds in the magazines and books of the late Victorian era.
And sponsorship was all the rage then.
And when you tell him all this, having found out that your self styled traditionalist has never even read Compleat Angler, or even books by Martin, Bailey or Coxon et al, AND when you find out that you are 12 years older than he, he calls you a liar. And then he tries to tell you how wonderful the fishing was in the 20s.
I have met people like this, have you?
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