Definately worth getting. It can be the most boring thing to do. Sitting there looking at a float on a computer screen for hours on end! But you can run it in the background while you're doing other things, and the task bar flashes when you get a bite. There's loads of different venues and tackle and bait you can download from the net. You never know, you might find the venues you fish. Setting up is about as realistic as you could get in a sim. You have a choice of rods, reels, reel line, hooklength, hooks, floats, shot etc, etc. The other day I caught a 3lb 4oz Roach + a load of 1lbers in one sesh. Its just like real life.