I have fished for 35 years and have fished pretty much every type of fishing from hand lines, bamboo canes, spears, bow and arrow, all types of rods from whips to 50lb class boat rods, from stickle back nets to gill nets and only recently started fly fishing and I must say it's the best type of fishing there is and by best I mean you get the most out of your fish no matter species it is. It is a very(dare I say it without Mackem slating me)intamate way of fishing and by that I mean you feel every thing the fish does and are in control of its movements unlike most other rod fishing where you us