Gentlemen It’s all very well parading your macho image in your 30s, but take these words of caution from an aging warhorse who’s been there, done it, got the tee-shirt, had rheumatism for over 15 years and now the onset of osteoarthritis in both knees and is still doing it.
When I started in this game over 35 years ago, we had frosts for weeks on end, with an average nighttime temperature of –7F The lowest temperature I can remember fishing in is –14F on the Severn in the early 70s May have been 74 or 5 and at midnight when I packed up with everything frozen solid, including my top clothes, I had a 2 hour journey home on a motorbike.
So you think your really hard men fishing in your hightech one piece suit, thermal boots, double skinned bivvy, all cosy in your minus 30 sleeping bag with an air temperature unlikely to make it into the minus figure.
You don’t know you’re born with the winters we get now! 7 nights frost per winter if we’re lucky, and that’s in the north of the country.
