Well, of course you are right, in some ways. In fact this programme never has set out to be a how-to-fish type of show. However it must get a very wide audience (or they wouldn’t keep on making more series). And some people watching will take what they see as representing good practice. So care needs to be taken.Wakou wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 9:09 pmI think you have missed the point. Two old mates spend time with each other, and talk and laugh. It is not about the fishing! It is about friendship and getting old. They could be sitting in a Wetherspoons, or at a bus-stop, waiting for a bus which will never come..Peter Wilde wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 6:50 pm Hmm … another episode which for me created some annoyance. As others have pointed out, that carp rod grated, left to fish by itself in another swim round the corner. Yes there didn’t seem to be other people wanting swims, and yes, the film crew may have watched it. But the average viewer won’t realise that = and may simply be left with the message that this is an OK way to behave. And what if that obligingly large carp had run into a snag and tethered itself?
A wider gripe is the programme’s presentation makes if all look too easy and unthoughtful - just walk along the bank, set up tackle any old how, chuck the floats out in a random direction, drop the rods on the ground or in the reeds, and wait for the lovely large fish to appear. Makes me wonder what I’m doing wrong and how to explain my (too many) blank days to non-angling relatives!
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.”
There is a place for frequent cut-away shots to beautiful views and interesting or pretty wildlife doing its thing. But those tediously drawn out close-ups of the stubble on the anglers’ faces were overdone. Ditto for their dog. Especially when a float is showing signs of going under in the background.
Won’t bother to watch any more episodes.
