Celebrity Anglers and What We Can Learn.
I have always loved fishing programmes and over the years
have watched all the great guys who catch fish for the camera. I have been lucky to be able to meet some of
my angling heroes like John Wilson, Matt Hayes and Mick Brown. What has occurred to me is what these anglers
can bring to our own fishing. It can be that we look at these guys and think
they are so good we might as well give up as we can never be as good as that.
However, I think that the opposite is true. I have always managed to fish off their
confidence. Many years ago I watched John Wilson catch a chub from a tiny river that looked no more than a trickle.
Inspired I went off to the tiny river Wid armed with a quiver tip and some lob
worms, to fish for chub myself. I followed what John had said and stalked some
likely looking swims. Head high stinging nettles did not put me off. To my
delight and wonder I hooked and landed a nice chub of just under 3 pounds. This
started a love affair with stalking chub that I still have to this day.
With social networking there are more opportunities to engage with these top anglers.. One
person has taken this to a new level. Adam Penning was the one of the main and
best presenters on Thinking Tackle. Recently he has moved into guiding carp
anglers. Adam’s knowledgeable presence on screen has already made better
anglers out of many of us. Now taken to Twitter he readily makes himself
available to answer questions and is very generous with his time. Carp angling
can be daunting to us mere mortals who want to improve our PB’s. Advice that
Adam gives freely on twitter is invaluable and his guiding business should take off big time. Great communication skills
coupled with a passion and deep knowledge is hard to come by and Adam has every
quality that is required. Adam can be contacted on @@askpenners on twitter and https://www.facebook.com/adam.penningcarpangler
on Facebook
