maceo
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and specifically the article right in the back 'Tales from the riverbank' featuring one Phil Wakeford.
He doesn't come across very well at all in this article he's written. I wonder whether he's really like that or he's just misrepresented himself and will regret it when he reads it later. If it's the former, then he's not someone I would like to fish near me.
Right at the start of the article he complains in the style of a government chief whip addressing the police about the catastrophe of "plebs" being allowed to fish at Ardingley reservoir (which has apparently been exclusive and private previously).
Then he talks about losing a pike through a broken line (presumably one would infer that his setup was insufficient for the job) and then throwing his rod some 40 metres like a javelin, before boasting about being a javelin throwing champion.
Some people don't have much money and their tackle is precious to them. They certainly wouldn't abuse it and throw it in a little temper tantrum because they didn't land a fish.
He then goes on to detail another big fish dropping off a foot from the bank because "I must have torn the flesh around the hook hold" with his incompetent over striking. Nobody to blame but yourself mate.
Finally he goes on about photography and posing 'this way and that' for a camera with no film in it. From the rest of the article I can just imagine someone of his ilk posing 'this way and that' with a poor gasping fish.
Then he caps if off with a spiteful remark about checking your photo DVD from the developers to make sure it has your fishing photos on and not "some ugly woman's romantic holiday".
Well, the woman on holiday may have been ugly to you Phil, but she'd have to work very hard to have an uglier character and temper than you appear to have.
You should be ashamed.
He doesn't come across very well at all in this article he's written. I wonder whether he's really like that or he's just misrepresented himself and will regret it when he reads it later. If it's the former, then he's not someone I would like to fish near me.
Right at the start of the article he complains in the style of a government chief whip addressing the police about the catastrophe of "plebs" being allowed to fish at Ardingley reservoir (which has apparently been exclusive and private previously).
Then he talks about losing a pike through a broken line (presumably one would infer that his setup was insufficient for the job) and then throwing his rod some 40 metres like a javelin, before boasting about being a javelin throwing champion.
Some people don't have much money and their tackle is precious to them. They certainly wouldn't abuse it and throw it in a little temper tantrum because they didn't land a fish.
He then goes on to detail another big fish dropping off a foot from the bank because "I must have torn the flesh around the hook hold" with his incompetent over striking. Nobody to blame but yourself mate.
Finally he goes on about photography and posing 'this way and that' for a camera with no film in it. From the rest of the article I can just imagine someone of his ilk posing 'this way and that' with a poor gasping fish.
Then he caps if off with a spiteful remark about checking your photo DVD from the developers to make sure it has your fishing photos on and not "some ugly woman's romantic holiday".
Well, the woman on holiday may have been ugly to you Phil, but she'd have to work very hard to have an uglier character and temper than you appear to have.
You should be ashamed.