What fishing is coming to? I just saw a post online where an angler wrote: I've got a Matrix digital fish counter - is there an attachment to mount it on the leg of my Octbox? What's the product that for you says most about angling paraphernalia shopaholics?
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John Aston
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It was ever thus - I can recall all sorts of old tut being foisted on the market. Non angling , but my dad treated his Ford Prefect to some wacky underbonnet device which made your cup of piping hot tea. And how about the thingie that gave you a lit cigarette as you drove?
I always giggle at bivvie slippers and there really aren't the words for the carper's camo hot water bottle...
I always giggle at bivvie slippers and there really aren't the words for the carper's camo hot water bottle...
Ray Roberts
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I was in a tackle shop a while back and saw some of these for sale: if we need proof that anglers will buy any old shi thing, then this has to be right up there.
@Clive
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Only in the last couple of weeks I've seen the biggest bivvy ever. At a guess I'd estimate it was 7ft 6in high, 8ft across and 10ft long, no there wasn't ten anglers sharing he was on his own.
One carp angler was repeatedly casting out some sort of small electronic device, some sort of sonar, fish finder?? While he was reeling it in he was studying the readout on a tablet thingy.
Actually I don't mind baitboats (though not for me) being used - I'd rather that than repeated spodding!
Most young anglers seem to be legering for carp. Will the art and enjoyment of watching a float be lost?
One carp angler was repeatedly casting out some sort of small electronic device, some sort of sonar, fish finder?? While he was reeling it in he was studying the readout on a tablet thingy.
Actually I don't mind baitboats (though not for me) being used - I'd rather that than repeated spodding!
Most young anglers seem to be legering for carp. Will the art and enjoyment of watching a float be lost?
Keith M
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What about the camouflaged Carp Pillow that comes in two sizes for £35 and £45?
Keith
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Keith M
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Or the MagiPult that Bob Nudd endorsed; which allowed you to cast your loosefeed one handed to around 15 metres when using your Pole;, but made such a noisy ‘PWANNG!!!!!’ noise when used; it would scare most of the fish out of your swim?
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ian g
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Never heard of most of them ,thankfully
The Sogster
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Is this really going to put more fish on the bank?
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CarpLife Black Etched Tea Spoon - £5.99
Kevin Perkins
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Camou cover for the gas bottle on your bbq.....
mikench
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I haven’t any of the items mentioned nor been aware they existed. Anything carp/bivvy/ overnights oriented has no interest. Other gadgets on the other hand……!
Keith M
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Nice trolley however those wheels look totally rubbish and wouldn’t be any good at all over a muddy field or muddy track; it would sink right up to its axles.
I have a cheap festival trolly that would be far better over soft ground (see pic)
Keith
I have a cheap festival trolly that would be far better over soft ground (see pic)
Keith
ian g
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The trollies where in evidence when I fished the Wye in December . We parked next to a couple of guys who brought a transit van full of gear down to the river .
Not surprised to hear that. Youtube/Fb full of Hereford bag-up videos. Some of the fish handling and pics, eg fish crammed into landing net heads, are brutal. I feel sorry for the fish. The phrase "in a barrel" comes to mind.
@Clive
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You ought to see the Dutch carp anglers over here. They turn up with a Transit sized van and trailer with a boat on it. They make three or four trips across the lake with the boat piled so high on each trip that only one of them can fit in the boat. They have solar panels, at least two 25 litre water butts and probably twice as much beer!
steve2
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When did it become take everything including the kitchen sink. If you can use a bungalow size bivvy why can't you use 6 berth tent.
motorised barrows are de rigeur for some older anglers who match fish rivers these days … we have several approaching or older than 80 who fish opens on the Great Ouse!
i can excuse Rob as well, as he has stents after a heart scare a couple of years back!
I’d rather they are still fishing the rivers than clustered around some puddle with parking behind peg.
But I do draw the line at Steve Drakulic’s son … who can’t be older than 35,
Nope … clay mud would stick to the wheels and then catch on the axle bars … I do know one person with a full OctBox trolley system and he’s had no end of trouble with the wheels and tipping over.Nice trolley however those wheels look totally rubbish and wouldn’t be any good at all over a muddy field or muddy track; it would sink right up to its axles.
I have a cheap festival trolly that would be far better over soft ground (see pic)
Keith
they certainly run the gauntlet, with massive pike and plenty of goosanders to boot … but I’d hesitate to call any of it brutal. I’d say most of the match anglers are interested in getting the fish back in water as quickly and efficiently as possible
motorised barrows are de rigeur for some older anglers who match fish rivers these days … we have several approaching or older than 80 who fish opens on the Great Ouse!
i can excuse Rob as well, as he has stents after a heart scare a couple of years back!
I’d rather they are still fishing the rivers than clustered around some puddle with parking behind peg.
But I do draw the line at Steve Drakulic’s son … who can’t be older than 35,
Nope … clay mud would stick to the wheels and then catch on the axle bars … I do know one person with a full OctBox trolley system and he’s had no end of trouble with the wheels and tipping over.
they certainly run the gauntlet, with massive pike and plenty of goosanders to boot … but I’d hesitate to call any of it brutal. I’d say most of the match anglers are interested in getting the fish back in water as quickly and efficiently as possible
I concede my example wasn't the best. I really wanted a pic of a full commie set-up with keepnets festooning a tool bar and side trays, back trays, double-deck trays, the full English of accessories, luggage to rival an airport baggage collection belt ...... I couldn't find one when I looked.
I fish rivers mostly myself but haven't fished a match since 2008, when I added half a dozen stents (the bloke who did the angiogram actually laughed when he saw the screen, and said, I can see why you've been having chest pain, Kevin) to the rheumatoid arthritis that hadn't helped since it set in in 1987.
I use a trolley myself, not surprisingly, but with either a compact Octbox or an old Boss box. Of course, I don't need the kitchen sink, as I know, pretty well, before I go what peg or kind of pegs/methods I'll use. I did try a motorised trolley, Powa walker, I think it was, but it was made out of scaffold pole or similar and the battery alone would give you a hernia to get in and out of the boot.
I'm aware that good match anglers, as all good anglers, have good fish handling, but I have to see I've seen some rough handling on videos of the famous winter hotspots. And, even though I often take a quick pic of my keepnet to stick on a HDYGO post, I really don't care for the business of cramming them into - worse, lining them up so they all point the same way - a landing net head, which is often seen. We know how much fish sometimes have to be messed about to get them to line up for the camera. For me, in shots that are meant to enhance a brand or angler's profile, those pics do the opposite.
So - no offence intended to you and your river match friends.