There is a North vs South fishing match being arranged on this web site’s Mailing List. Click the button on the main page if you want to subscribe – and don’t worry, it’s free! (Some faces from a previous Mailing List Fish-in can be seen in the picture).
The banter between the two camps has been both intense and at times extremely funny. Everything both north and south, including the anglers, the beer, and the fisheries have been insulted by the opposing side to the point where if anyone really believed it they’d be rushing to move from one end of the country to the other. We’ve had Northern Nancy’s, Southern Softies, flat beer from the south made from liquid sh***e, and cream beer from the north made from liquidised black puddings. You wouldn’t believe what cutting but comical insults have been swapped. We even have a Christian Minister from the Midlands who can’t make his mind up who to fish for, with each side hoping he fishes for the other (only joking Sedge!).
The match is over two legs, the first one in May down south and the second up north sometime in August. The format of the match is yet to be settled, but it could be a species match whereby you get points for every different species caught.
Fishing is such an abstract sport that anything can happen over a single day and whoever wins it doesn’t really prove anything. But try telling that to the Mailing List members who are still bickering away like a nest of angry bees (me included I have to say).
In reality it doesn’t really matter who wins, but what the hell, let’s believe it does and have fun!
