Disgraced at fishing gear snobs.

[guy]

we take a young lad out fishing at first he used a £30 second hand rod and a small fresh water reel and didnt use fancy rigs just a loop in the line and within the first month he got a 8lb cod on roker pier. now he has got better gear and still out fishes us

[<(Andy2009)>]

Unlucky mate

There always has to be someone who takes the ****, there just nasty *******s.

Where all anglers, and no matter wat gear you use, they should respect that we all enjoy the same sport, and your only learning mate.

A bet they used gear like wat u have when they were learning, so why cant they show some manners!!


P.S. Hope you found the rite gear you wanted before when u were asking...

[daveywood]

tossers

kenny there tossers enjoy your fishing mate tight lines

[northeast1]

Just ask on here about gear and you will get honest wide range of replies.

Nice to see you posting Dave hope you had a good xmas.

[The Deeps]

Try taking up salmon fishing if you want to know what a real tackle tart is!
They will roll up on the riverbank with over 5 grands worth of gear and never catch a thingThe same "chaps"think nowt of spending a grand a day on some back end Tweed fishing and still come away with nowtAll walks of life have these geezers,they're known as "tossers"and are best ignored to let you get on with the important stuff,which is enjoying yourself!

[sauce]

not at all mate most fishermen are helpful no need to take the p.ss out of any1 gear catch just the same no matter what rod or reel you have ..... just take no notice mate and enjoy the sport

[g-force]

it's not the tackle that catches the fish it's the angler. I remeber an old bloke that used to fish Whitley Beach "Panama Joe" had an old rod and scarborugh reel, wore wellies, no fancy waders, those that didn't know him and had all the fancy gear used to take the micky, then watched as he pulled out fish after fish while they blanked.

There's a blast from the past - remember him well when I fished Whitley club as a junior, learned a lot from him and the other (now) old timers like the Nixon brothers. Back then it was the only way to learn - no easy-on-line-internet-answers-to-everything. Hope I can live up to their example helping less able anglers who want to learn.

Mathematically speaking, you'll generally find that the amount of gobsh!te these "anglers" come out with is directly & inversely proportional to their ability to catch fish..........in other words take no notice!

Gary

[bozjc]

as already mentioned a few times matey, you use whatever gear you feel comfortable with. dont let anyone tell you that you have to use a certain make or kind of gear only to catch fish.

i have fished next to people with gear that is donkeys years old and they have landed more fish than me, if your bait is in the water you have the same chance as everyone else.

99% of the guys you see out fishing, in a tackle shop or on this site will give you sound advice and help out.

some people can go into a tackle shop, kit themselves out with the best, most expensive gear and still not produce any fish or anymore fish than you,

i do alot of salmon fishing, the club i am in is full of lardy dars, they have the best of the best when it comes to gear, they pull up in their big uber expensive 4x4s, i get out of my tiny car, put on my best geordie acent and fish next to them with my infearior gear, i still catch the same amount of fish as them if not more lol, tackle tarts ;D

[bozjc]

you always get the jimmy sh*t crack, the guy that has been to elevenerriffe if you have just come back from tenerriffe.

i had the misfortune of having to spend a few hrs next to one a few months back on a pier, it was mobbed, you could hear this bloke from the car park a mile away, he was loud as fook, ended up fishing right next to me, he might as well of sat on my seat box (i always seem to attract them lol). started giving it the big i am, ''fished here for years and years, probs before you were born, blah blah blah''

after 20mins of bleeding lugs, he started fishing, had all of the gear, ended up chucking over me and 4 guys to my right, then nested up a few times.

kept on saying i should be doing this and that, i was over the moon when i pulled in a few fish. i didnt have the heart to tell him i lived 5mins away and had fished that place more than i can remember.

dont let anything like that put you off, enjoy the sport, you get alot of joy from catching fish your own way ;D

[angler100]

I've seen plenty of these types over the years. Got all the latest top of the range gear but not a clue why. I remember many years ago sitting on Amble pier with my 10ft rod and wee fixed spool, when a big lad with all the gear turned up. Spent 40 minutes setting up, asked us to move so that he could take a run up before casting. Five minutes later after cracking off he was asking if I knew how to tie a hook on properly.

[mark]

often a problem with the shop sometimes as well - always full of the same 'hangers on' hovering about, know everything, look down on everyone

word to the wise to any shop owners - get rid of em - they spend little and put off a large number of customers, especially newcomers who are often a bit nervous about what's best suited for them and what they need and how much they can afford

couple of places I'll not set foot in anymore due to the usual bunch of feckwits propping up the counter

for what its worth, when I got back into fishing I bought a rod for a fiver at a car boot and wouldn't part with it for anything

[g.ordon]

'anglers' who take a long time to set up are normally the worst. That's my opinion anyway. Good anglers have everything sorted before they say tarra to the wife.

[treeboa]

get into carp fishing and its worse, seems to be if you aint spent 4k on gear then your not going to catch anything, even if you do go down the wallet route theres always some tosser says something derogatory about the gear your using

its like all these rods that can cast 300 yards, great magic, thats assuming you can cast that far with the kit yourself, 100 yards with bait is a bloody good distance for 95% of guys that do fish, remember on merseyside turning up on the prom with my old zip2500, i had a small multi strapped to it and it was freshly loaded with 20lb braid, got myself in among a group that obviously had won the pools, no bait as i wanted to set the braid down before fishing that week end, three small casts, heard a few funny remarks about catch more with bait, then hit it, braid went out, i slowed it down and dropped the lead in, one of the `knowledgeable` came across admiring my skills as in his opinion that last cast must have hit close to 300 yards, obviously i was going to be invited into thier `casting` team, well untill i aquainted the tosser with the fact i had 150 yards of braid on, it had just hit the red ice backing and i cut the cast short, best part was i was well beyond thier best efforts, thinking back it was like a tackle shop display, its around midday, summer, they had the headlamps and pertrol lights out, the boxes were open displaying the gear they all had, the new floaties the lot
heres a piccy of the area

[lambtonworm]

just ignore that type mate,enjoy your fishing,i do occassionally frequent the odd tackle shop but would rather give good advice as this will help everyone fish in comfort ....

[northumberland swordfish]

rods

Hi Fella,

My first rod was a ron thompson zennorflex, it was a 10na from billys in north sheilds and butchered to hell, the reel was a 5 pound fixed spool from the junk shop near billys, and i cadged a bag off a mate and he gave me a load of weights and line and rigs, Weve all got to start somewhere,

Ive just done a bit of overtime at work and bought one decent thing each months that i need, started with a bix then weights then a rig wallet then i got a rod then a reel,

Perfection takes time