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Having just read Peters excellent write up on his recent visit to view Sonik tackle it reminded me of something from a few years ago.
A young mum, saved hard from her wages to get her son some fishing gear for xmas but she had no idea where to buy or what to buy, my brother in law told her he would ask me as i was an angler and could probably give her some advice.
He told me what she was thinking and what kind of price she would be able to pay, i told him to ask her if it was ok to give me her number or address and i'd give her some help/advice, i popped around to her house and got her online to look at complete set ups sadly all of them were out of her price range so i suggested second hand, she wasn't being "snobby" but really wanted to buy new so i told her i'd take her up to "Go outdoors" on the friday afternoon and she could use my discount card to get her sone some gear.
She eventually overspent by a few quid but we managed to get her son just about everything he'd need including a nice little seatbox to put the stuff in, all in it came to just under £80 if i remember right and she was all smiles and talking about his face when he opened it all on xmas morning.
When i saw her in the new year she told me he was already planning a fishing day, he'd wanted to go boxing day but she wouldn't let him so he'd sulked but he was going to the castle pool that weekend with some friends, the next time i saw her it was a few months later and i asked her how he was doing...what she told me made me angry, and i mean really angry.
He'd gone to a local fishery on his bike but came home a couple of hours later in tears, she eventually got it out of him why.
he'd started setting up and some "old blokes" opposite had started laughing at him and taking the mickey out of his "cheap nasty rubbish" , i was fuming and told her to tell her lad i'd take him fishing if he wanted to go, she looked at me with one of those "sad puppy eye" looks and told me he had gone into town the following weekend, sold all his tackle and used the money to buy a computer game.
I think what peed me off the most was a young lad who could have been a future Bob Nudd or Steve Ringer had been ridiculed by some unthinking idiots that probably believe you have to pay hundreds or thousands to catch fish and the more expensive the gear the better the angler, i would be willing to bet that putting a £10 rod and reel in the hands of someone like Bob or Steve would still result in more fish than the "old blokes" who upset a young lad using gear his mum had saved hard to buy!
A young mum, saved hard from her wages to get her son some fishing gear for xmas but she had no idea where to buy or what to buy, my brother in law told her he would ask me as i was an angler and could probably give her some advice.
He told me what she was thinking and what kind of price she would be able to pay, i told him to ask her if it was ok to give me her number or address and i'd give her some help/advice, i popped around to her house and got her online to look at complete set ups sadly all of them were out of her price range so i suggested second hand, she wasn't being "snobby" but really wanted to buy new so i told her i'd take her up to "Go outdoors" on the friday afternoon and she could use my discount card to get her sone some gear.
She eventually overspent by a few quid but we managed to get her son just about everything he'd need including a nice little seatbox to put the stuff in, all in it came to just under £80 if i remember right and she was all smiles and talking about his face when he opened it all on xmas morning.
When i saw her in the new year she told me he was already planning a fishing day, he'd wanted to go boxing day but she wouldn't let him so he'd sulked but he was going to the castle pool that weekend with some friends, the next time i saw her it was a few months later and i asked her how he was doing...what she told me made me angry, and i mean really angry.
He'd gone to a local fishery on his bike but came home a couple of hours later in tears, she eventually got it out of him why.
he'd started setting up and some "old blokes" opposite had started laughing at him and taking the mickey out of his "cheap nasty rubbish" , i was fuming and told her to tell her lad i'd take him fishing if he wanted to go, she looked at me with one of those "sad puppy eye" looks and told me he had gone into town the following weekend, sold all his tackle and used the money to buy a computer game.
I think what peed me off the most was a young lad who could have been a future Bob Nudd or Steve Ringer had been ridiculed by some unthinking idiots that probably believe you have to pay hundreds or thousands to catch fish and the more expensive the gear the better the angler, i would be willing to bet that putting a £10 rod and reel in the hands of someone like Bob or Steve would still result in more fish than the "old blokes" who upset a young lad using gear his mum had saved hard to buy!
........Poxy world we live in sometimes
