Smile Please

[Bob Hornegold]

Why is it that so many anglers holding fish for the Camera don't Smile.

I might sometimes struggle with a picture if I'm taking a self take, but for most of the time I try to smile

Why it that so many Carp and Barbel Angler, don't seem very happy with their captures

I have heard it said, it's about the fish, not me

But if thats the case, why not take a photo of the fish on the mat :wh

Bob

 

[Steve Pope]

Hi Bob,

Couldn't agree with you more!

If fishing doesn't make you happy then something's wrong, costs nothing and makes the world a more pleasant place.

Making my favourite music analogy, The Boss is always smiling when he plays and thats infectious, frowning is so yesterday!

All the best.

 

[Alan Tyler]

If it looked like fun, everyone would be trying it, and you'd never get a swim...

 

[beerweasel]

They are trying to look professional, if they smile it might look like an accidental
capture.
Personally I prefer to take a "classic" photo of just the fish in the net with rod and reel.
A bit sad really.

 

[Peter Jacobs]

I just love the; 'Im not interested, kind of bored, do this all the time' look that you see on anglers faces when holding a specimen size fish.

It always amazes me how they can stay up all night, in the same clothes and then as if by a miracle, look clean and pressed in a sponsor's T shirt just in time for the picture . . . . . . .

Yeah, right!

 

[dannytaylor]

I try to smile as catching fish makes me happy, sometimes a really big fish can "blow you away" looking in awe face

There is a flipside to this though some anglers in the magazines can look a bit crazy with there big cheesy grins.

 

[Bob Hornegold]

I try to smile as catching fish makes me happy, sometimes a really big fish can "blow you away" looking in awe face

There is a flipside to this though some anglers in the magazines can look a bit crazy with there big cheesy grins.

And Crazy Red Eye's

 

[MarkTheSpark]

On this subject, I was once at a fly fishing competition when a man who'd been banned from one trout fishery earlier that year for having a pocketful of Cheddar won the individual's trophy.

During the presentation, he was called to collect his prize and, as he accepted the trophy, some wag at the back yelled: "Say cheese!"

Laugh? I nearly bought a round....

 

[experty]

I try to smile as catching fish makes me happy, sometimes a really big fish can "blow you away" looking in awe face

There is a flipside to this though some anglers in the magazines can look a bit crazy with there big cheesy grins.

There is always a difference between magazine and real life.

 

[pellethead15]

most of the kids smile in the angling times pics page,i like to see anglers smiling,although the lay down in the grass with fish pose is just weird lol.