The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

...if The Guardian is to be believed https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gal ... n-pictures. We are the new style icons. Does this mean that the banks are soon going to be crowded with avid hipsters anxious to consult us on our daywear choices? Will we be deluged with invitations to oversee forthcoming menswear lines at major labels (I'm holding out for Armani)? Will Dick Walker, Fred Foster, Ivan Marks and Billy Lane be added to this list https://www.gq.com/gallery/cary-grant-p ... -slideshow? Will I finally get to meet Kate Moss when she drops by the Plumpers stretch on the S&T canal to check out the styles?

I think this calls for a gallery of how we do our fashion choices, while engaging in our favoured leisure pursuit, to offer guidance to those so anxious to emulate us. Get those photos up here guys, a nation holds its breath in anticipation.

BTW, in case anyone here was thinking of taking up the recommendations in The Guardian you might care to note that in the first picture the belt alone costs £50 and the total outfit comes to £720. Presumably the G didn't print the prices to avoid heart attacks among readers. Note that the tackle is provided, of course, by the never-knowingly-underpriced Orvis, supplier of choice to angling's equivalent of fashion victims everywhere.

How are we going to break it to them that the final touch is a subtle but pervasive and enduring perfume of a mixture of ground bait, bream slime, maggot sweat and worm juice (another reason the nation holds its breath)?

Clobber for posers not anglers

It would seem that fishing will (hopefully not) go the same way as shooting (in the context of the fashionistas) - looking absolutely ridiculous and standing out like the veritable uninvited guest whilst being superbly crap at what there doing - and following suit I suppose the after event meal and claret will make up for those not having any idea whatsoever - but this maybe the vacuous point in it all.

In summer I don't go fishing without my lucky shirt ...

Pallenpool wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2019 11:13 am It would seem that fishing will (hopefully not) go the same way as shooting (in the context of the fashionistas) - looking absolutely ridiculous and standing out like the veritable uninvited guest whilst being superbly crap at what there doing - and following suit I suppose the after event meal and claret will make up for those not having any idea whatsoever - but this maybe the vacuous point in it all.

Wal.

Jeremy Croxall wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2019 10:38 am Clobber for posers not anglers

As long as you avoid Hoxton you won't see people dressed like that.

Isnt it funny how nonanglers hold fishing rods. The clothes mustve been specially made for the model. Orvis stuff comes in all sizes from super large and up.

I recall an episode of Inspector George Gently where he went fishing. He did have a centrepin but it was positioned right at the bottom end of the handle and so the rod was completely unbalanced. Incidentally, Lee Ingleby (DS Bacchus), a Burnley lad like myself, is in a series of dramas currently on Netflix called Criminal and is very good in it.

Most of the Hipster types are just being Trendy or Fashionable... anglers wear tweeds moleskins and other sensible accoutrements as they are practical and hardwearing... mostly