bennygesserit
Well-known member
I haven't posted for a while but I have still read , with great interest , the posts here , I always did there is a helluva lot to be learned from forums. My son bought a Jag recently , lucky lad but he works hard , it developed a few faults but his older brother has been putting himself through college to get an NVQ in vehicle maintenance was able to fix them via a few Jaguar forums.
It made me wonder what people did before forums , wasn’t that long ago , if you couldn't figure something out yourself you had to wait till it happened to a mate , experience was very hard won and very very prized if you were a mechanic ( or an angler ) you had little chance to learn.
So how does that relate to fishing ? We have a dichotomy between a real work ethic ( anyone born in the sixties has it ) and the viper quick learning of the millennial generation ( generation Y ).
Generation Y has access to a thousand anglers tales , all manner of tips and tricks around being as effective as possible on the bank , I have seen my lad do it , in fact I have done it – catching fish that would have been a dream in the fifties and sixties ( when my old man used a grass stalk to secure luncheon meat ) plus I have better gear , better transport , better ( tactical angling ) intelligence than my predecessors in the fifties.
So I propose that today’s anglers are much better than all the ( oh he was such a gent ) anglers of the 50's because we have better knowledge and better kit.
So any angler here given their knowledge and their access to knowledge and their kit would have been a legend in the post war fifties UK
It made me wonder what people did before forums , wasn’t that long ago , if you couldn't figure something out yourself you had to wait till it happened to a mate , experience was very hard won and very very prized if you were a mechanic ( or an angler ) you had little chance to learn.
So how does that relate to fishing ? We have a dichotomy between a real work ethic ( anyone born in the sixties has it ) and the viper quick learning of the millennial generation ( generation Y ).
Generation Y has access to a thousand anglers tales , all manner of tips and tricks around being as effective as possible on the bank , I have seen my lad do it , in fact I have done it – catching fish that would have been a dream in the fifties and sixties ( when my old man used a grass stalk to secure luncheon meat ) plus I have better gear , better transport , better ( tactical angling ) intelligence than my predecessors in the fifties.
So I propose that today’s anglers are much better than all the ( oh he was such a gent ) anglers of the 50's because we have better knowledge and better kit.
So any angler here given their knowledge and their access to knowledge and their kit would have been a legend in the post war fifties UK