Passion for angling....

[Molehill]

I only watched one bit of a Mortimer and Whitehouse programe and that was more than enought, like you I just don't like 'em, at all.

Medical records are pretty sacrosanct, yet for every episode for every series we had the A-Z of their health problems. Hey guys, we are all getting on, we all have problems, so lighten up and let's go fishing as your d***y heart is not THAT interesting that I want to buy a TV licence to hear about it.
And don't start me on that cackhanded idiot Mortimer........

Edit: Forum didn't like the d**k!

 

[no-one in particular]

I think once I realized it was not an angling program, more about them with some angling thrown in I quite enjoyed it but you had to like their humor to do so. I found quite a few non anglers enjoyed it, mainly women, maybe all that heartache bought the mother out in them but it was very popular.
I wouldn't mind a program on the history of fishing, that would send plenty to fall asleep probably but I would find it interesting. Imagine someone demonstrating all the styles and how they evolved, maybe not but I could help out with the props Another might make good viewing is a historic look at all the big fish that came from one river or all of them. Could be some good fishy tales in there somewhere.

 

[rob48]

Every time I watch that Autumn edition of PFA I end up booking a riverside cottage somewhere.

 

[tigger]

Every time I watch that Autumn edition of PFA I end up booking a riverside cottage somewhere.

Great in'it .

 

[rob48]

Great in'it .

Yeah. It just makes you want to get out there.

 

[terry m]

It’s funny how our tastes differ. I loved the Mortimer and Whitehouse series, but more for the rapport and comedy rather than the angling content, which was very basic. I find Bob Mortimer v amusing.

 

[terry m]

And btw I seem to remember a Martin Bowler series that was very enjoyable.

 

[mikench]

I too loved the Whitehouse and Mortimer series. It had humour, anecdotes, picturesque countryside and a bit of fishing thrown in. What more do you want? Bob Mortimer is witty and very down to earth and like me a fairly useless angler. Maybe that's why I enjoyed it; we have a lot in common.

 

[mikench]

Lord Paul liked it too

Who does he remind me off; incoherent, posh, unruly hair - no it just won't come to me.

 

[tigger]

And btw I seem to remember a Martin Bowler series that was very enjoyable.

Yes, not sure which ones you mean though, as he was in the series catching the impossible and I think he has some dvd's of his own.
I would like to see those also.

 

[seth49]

I have two sets of Martin bowlers dvds, catching the impossible, and chasing shadows both worth watching.

 

[steve2]

That where we are all different I thought Mortimer and Whitehouse was better than a Passion for Angling.
I can't think of anything more boring than someone trying to make match fishing look interesting ie Fish o Mania.

 

[tigger]

That where we are all different I thought Mortimer and Whitehouse was better than a Passion for Angling.
I can't think of anything more boring than someone trying to make match fishing look interesting ie Fish o Mania.

Have you got mixed up Steve?
Passion for angling was nothing to do with match angling, infact it was quite the opposite.

Regarding comics making fishing programmes, I would love to have seen Bernard Manning, Les Dawson and Ronnie Barker make a fishing vid lol.

 

[rayner]

I would have little idea of what would work with a limited amount of technique both fishing and chatting to strangers, I suppose anyone thinking of making a fishing programme should at least be capable with equipment and be a little outgoing. Macey certainly has the outgoing bit covered also a degree of angling ability but what a god awful bore with his loud demeanour and his pasted-on smile to boot.
I'd be totally useless in making a short clip, never mind a series. Just as well I have no ambition to do so, that negates any need for me to try.
I'm quite happy to look to others more capable to do the technical bit.

 

[Mark Wintle]

I'm still trying (very trying some would say!) but learning a huge amount about editing, underwater and sound capture. Frighteningly easy to spend a fortune on equipment, too, and I thought fishing gear was expensive. Here's last week's effort.

Weirpool dace and roach fishing

 

[no-one in particular]

Have you got mixed up Steve?
Passion for angling was nothing to do with match angling, infact it was quite the opposite.

Regarding comics making fishing programmes, I would love to have seen Bernard Manning, Les Dawson and Ronnie Barker make a fishing vid lol.

Or Tommy Cooper, he would be going "just like that" every time he caught a fish and everyone would fall about, he would win any match, imagine trying to fish against that!

 

[steve2]

No not mixed up I just meant there is nothing more boring than watching match fishing on the tele and some one trying to make it sound exciting.

Come to that trying to make any fishing sound exciting to a mass audience.

 

[108831]

I liked Whitehouse and Mortimer,Whitehouse is a good angler,but they bounce off each other well,as for Macey,if carp fishing is about yawping around with Ali Hamidi(whom I quite like when he isn't with the other muppets)i'm bloody glad I don't fish in a bivvy behind three rods,it would be better watching them on a night out in the boozer...

 

[silvers]

I'm still trying (very trying some would say!) but learning a huge amount about editing, underwater and sound capture. Frighteningly easy to spend a fortune on equipment, too, and I thought fishing gear was expensive. Here's last week's effort.

Weirpool dace and roach fishing

nice work Mark, but you really should get a bait apron

 

[The Sogster]

I would love to see Tommy Cooper doing his bottle trick with keepnets