Fishing for beginners

Getting started

There is a huge amount of nonsense talked about fishing. It is a very simple pastime at root.

You can get started for a surprisingly small outlay and in half an hour you can learn enough to catch your first few fish.

Beginning as an adult

It can be a little embarassing trying to get started among a group of disturbingly competent children.

Teaching children to fish

Whether of not you fish yourself there are additional problems when teaching children.

So why is everything in the angling magazines so complicated?

If fishing magazines only wrote about the methods that work for most fish most of the time they would go out of business.

So why is everything in the tackle shop so complicated?

If tackle shops only sold the equipment that works for most fish most of the time they would go out of business.