Fishing? Mr Crabtree or Robson Green?

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Being of a certain age i am disgusted in todays fishing TV where folk like RG who can't fish and get flown all over the world to catch easy fish which kids must see as the way to fish. I was taught with cheap kit and knowledge of the water and fish feeding and migrating conditions. I was mentored by oldies that knew the water and some could hardly see to tie a fly on.
Fishing has become a numbers game portrayed by duffers on TV.
 
Extreme Fishing doesn't purport to show anyone how to fish, it's entertainment and as such, it works very well. I know people who have never been fishing who love it, and that's mostly just down to Robson himself. It also doesn't just feature trawling for marlin and the like, there being episodes where he's just trying to net a shrimp, and just as happy to do so which I can relate to.

There was a Mr Crabtree TV series a year or two ago and it was frankly pretty bad. For fifteen minutes he'd be teaching a child how to fish, and then there'd be a 15 minute montage of landing fish of ever growing size, which I think we can agree isn't really showing it as it is.

And yes K, you have to admire a man who only appears to have gone into acting or novelty singing acts to be able to pay for his fishing!
 
awk i have to say i do enjoy RG's shows just for his crap patter and a laugh when he looses a monster but this show is not aimed at being an informative fishing show the likes of total fishing and carp squad and all the other serious angling programs on discovery shed etc with helpful tips and what not. This is purely made for entertainment, trying to bring fishing into the mainstream, my other half will sit and watch Rg as she enjoys it and finds it amusing, i couldnt see her sitting down watching matt hayes with the same enthusiasim lol.

It reminds me of top gear - in the olf days it was few old guys giving good tests on affordable cars for the intentions of being an informative program but now its just spiralled into a entertainment program which just happens to feature cars (usually unaffordable & doing silly things lol)
 
Its a pity that RG is such a crap angler if he was half decent then there would be more caught. There has only ever been one brilliant angling programme and that was a Passion for Angling. Two of the most knowledgable anglers and brilliant cameraman. I rediscovered my VHS tapes earlier this year and the programme on the Spey has some stunning filming, lovely bit on a roe buck and the bird life is exceptional.

Sadly once again a thing of the past.

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Pine Marten said:
Extreme Fishing doesn't purport to show anyone how to fish, it's entertainment and as such, it works very well. I know people who have never been fishing who love it, and that's mostly just down to Robson himself. It also doesn't just feature trawling for marlin and the like, there being episodes where he's just trying to net a shrimp, and just as happy to do so which I can relate to.

There was a Mr Crabtree TV series a year or two ago and it was frankly pretty bad. For fifteen minutes he'd be teaching a child how to fish, and then there'd be a 15 minute montage of landing fish of ever growing size, which I think we can agree isn't really showing it as it is.

And yes K, you have to admire a man who only appears to have gone into acting or novelty singing acts to be able to pay for his fishing!
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True. Even my wife enjoys it and daughter too if we can wrestle the Top Gear remote button from her.:roll:

K
 
RG embodies one of my pet hates, a jealous angler. I appreciate that they are all to common, but the crap he comes out with and the competitive edge he adds to what should be some special fishing opportunities really grates on me.

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RG is a complete #rse and ruins what could have been a good show in great locations.
In one episode he jumped right over his caught and beached salmon to give the bemused guide a cuddle.

How about a fishing / cooking show with Nigella Lawson?.
Now that I could watch. :)
 
I guess this thread has a lot in common with the BDS one of today, as in what people might like something to be.
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While there's room and no doubt demand for a gentler approach to a fishing safari as PF suggests and I too would love, I just don't see advertisers queuing to sponsor a production based on a ponderous, pipe-smoking and weathered presenter of the Out of Town variety however sympathetic the camerawork may be to the "Waterlog" inspired aesthetic.
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Nigella does Marlow barbel bankside may however prove a tad more commercially viable!!

We can of course still cast our dreams at the sun in hope.

K ‎
 
RG is very fortunate in what he is now able to do and I think any of us who are anglers of any ability would jump at the chance.
He is paying a lot of money to land fish of any type, and there is no difference between that and any of the clients that are taken out to shoot deer, we are paid an agreed amount to put an animal in front of them and tell them which one to shoot.
When it hits the deck they are just as pleased as RG , some even more so.
Whether we like him matters not, the fact that he is nervous of anything with teeth coming into the boat just makes for entertaining tv.
Some of his fishing is good, some is downright dangerous and some of the things he eats in the name of entertainment leave me feeling sick.
The program is what it is, entertainment, just leave it at that. As with anything or anybody if they annoy you stop being with them or turn the box off.
 
RED-DOT said:
Being of a certain age i am disgusted in todays fishing TV where folk like RG who can't fish and get flown all over the world to catch easy fish which kids must see as the way to fish. I was taught with cheap kit and knowledge of the water and fish feeding and migrating conditions. I was mentored by oldies that knew the water and some could hardly see to tie a fly on.
Fishing has become a numbers game portrayed by duffers on TV.
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Completely agree,

IMO RG is a tw8t. Crabtree is a legend!
 
Fishing on TV will never surpass "Tales From the Riverbank", presented by Geoffrey Palmer. The episodes on salmon, trout (with Moc Morgan) and barbel (with John Bailey) were superb...or at least that's what my memory tells me.

If only they'd release it on DVD :(
 
and I have just noticed the that great Aussie fishing series "A river somewhere" is available in full epidsodes on youtube!








 
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willie_gunn said:
Thank you - the fishing articles look interesting but the Goodwood Festival photos are, well, Glorious!
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They are indeed but sad as it must appear I derive no less pleasure from the lustrous curves and luminous hues of a well crafted and painted cork float. That my daughter’s eyes all but mirror the very particular colour associated with that unpainted but varnished section of a vintage float; a time machine with auto pilot to my childhood, no doubt has everything to do with it.

It’s far easier to call her “conker eyes” though!

K
 
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