wanderer
Well-known member
May be spelt wrong as i used to bunk off fishing a lot but basically , life Journey, where we started , where we have been and where are we going.
Has your motivation changed with age, mine has, what motivates our multi branched devotees on a personal level. I have never done match fishing or sea fishing, is it a case of beating your mates or in the marine case, catching something to eat. Carp boys, this has so many different likes and dislikes, when i started carp fishing, early seventies, not many people doing it and i used to intersperse it with my Tench angling, probably wouldnt have done it all if i hadnt been busted up a few times and it became a challenge. I always found it time consuming for miniscule rewards, then along came the commies. At first , i thought it was great, but rapidly got bored and joined harder and harder syndicates, then got fed up and tried the Estates, yep with them and the river regularly restocked with escapees, life is good again. Love the lone chub and Barbel hunts, Pike from Hollowell and Sywell and the Aquadromes marina, Roach and Rudd, from a local park lake, Perch, Oulton Broad or the Ouse or a holiday cottage on the Kennet or Avon years ago. Fly fishing through the months of the old close season, thoroughly enjoyed, taught me much but i dont know whether i would want it as a singular approach, so what motivates those guys. All the new anglers just taking up the sport, your thoughts appreciated, and you old hands, have you changed in your thoughts and expectations.
Has your motivation changed with age, mine has, what motivates our multi branched devotees on a personal level. I have never done match fishing or sea fishing, is it a case of beating your mates or in the marine case, catching something to eat. Carp boys, this has so many different likes and dislikes, when i started carp fishing, early seventies, not many people doing it and i used to intersperse it with my Tench angling, probably wouldnt have done it all if i hadnt been busted up a few times and it became a challenge. I always found it time consuming for miniscule rewards, then along came the commies. At first , i thought it was great, but rapidly got bored and joined harder and harder syndicates, then got fed up and tried the Estates, yep with them and the river regularly restocked with escapees, life is good again. Love the lone chub and Barbel hunts, Pike from Hollowell and Sywell and the Aquadromes marina, Roach and Rudd, from a local park lake, Perch, Oulton Broad or the Ouse or a holiday cottage on the Kennet or Avon years ago. Fly fishing through the months of the old close season, thoroughly enjoyed, taught me much but i dont know whether i would want it as a singular approach, so what motivates those guys. All the new anglers just taking up the sport, your thoughts appreciated, and you old hands, have you changed in your thoughts and expectations.