Alan Whitty
Well-known member
Why do we get bombarded on this heading with talk of tackle and the uses the USA market?
If the manufacturers realised that out of the 100k memberships very members read or contribute to this forum they wouldn't so keen to pay him.
We have a few ‘ghosts’ like that. They come on every day, several times a day, but never post anything.It is the same on a French fishing forum. Every day there is a list of members who have their birthday. 90% of them have never made a post.
Of course they have fishing forums in America. With similar threads to ours. How did y'all get on? The (smell of napalm in the) Morning Thread. All the usual stuff.
Some of Scuba Chris's blatant product placements make me smile. But I don't see why we shouldn't put up our own reviews of UK-relevant stuff.
I'd happily review plenty of mine - but the market's mad obsession with new product - let's all run faster to stand still, or even go backwards - means that by the time you are in a position to do a long-term review the product is no longer available. For heaven's sake, people put up "reviews" on the internet of stuff they are just getting out of the box.
Is the product any good? Too early to tell, as Chairman Mao is reputed to have said about the French Revolution. I call it good when it still works and I still like it after at least 10 years.