Arthur Ransome Rod and Line DVD

[Wildfisher]

Have been buying quite a few fishing DVDs recently. There are some good bargains to be had if you look around.

Got a nice one with the late Sir Michael Hordern  fishing and narrating from Arthur Ransome's  "Rod and Line"

This was a TV series in the late 70s or early 80s as I remember and what a refreshing change from much of the dull, hyped stuff, casting, fish porn etc   on offer these days.

No tomorrow's-essential-space-age-boron-magnesium-ringed-narrow-loop-guaranteed-lightening fast-rods, no   multi-compound-tapered-Sage-Orvis-logo-breathable-baseball caps, no screaming rock music, no look how far I can cast and therefore how big my dick must be.

No, just 3 hours with an educated and cultured gentleman with his split cane rods, tweed jacket, collar and tie, fishing and talking over a  musical sound track of piano, cello and violin.

Wonderful! Fishing portrayed in the very way that got me fishing in the first place.

What a tonic compared to some of the hyped up garbage on offer these days.   Really! Best fiver I ever spent!  :lol:

[Fishtales]

I have that one too

[haresear]

I remember that one. Good film.

I read the book when I was young. Definitely in my top ten fishing books.

Alex

[Wildfisher]

The writing is superb Alex.

Carp fishing is described as "an endless quest for an unholy grail". A bit more insightful that "wooooooooo! nice fish dude"   :lol:

[Wildfisher]

That's exactly the kind of rubbish I mean Alan. Hardly contemplative. All that shows is that probably very  little  thought or planning went into the writing and scripting  assuming there was any at all of course. A bit like a movie where special effects  are used as a substitute for lack of a plot. Or writing a book for the sake of of it or for ego rather than for the need of it.

[Wildfisher]

.......... on the other hand and in complete contrast  ....... another from my latest batch ..............

WILD FISHING WITH HENRY GILBEY vol II - 2 DVD set.

Sea fishing and oh how I wish it was just a 1 DVD set.   :roll:  Loud, brash, in your face - in fact it encompasses just about everything that fishing shouldn't. The guy is a good angler, but  oh dear .....................   :roll:

That said it does have some interesting bits about mullet fishing. All in all this DVD might  be more suited to your insecure / inflated ego  ex soccer casual type  angler.

Anyone  know one?   :lol:

[tomcatin]

I have to confess I had not realised he had written a book about fishing, but a quick google reveals just what a highly regarded book it is.

As a child I was enchanted by his Swallows & Amazon series and I have read some of his writings from his time as a foreign correspondant with the Manchester Guardian; so I am now really keen to read it

Sadly it doesn't appear to be in print at the moment, but I have just purchased a secondhand copy on Amazon for 1p plus the standard P&P rate.

So that one book sorted for the holidays 

[Traditionalist]

Some here as well;

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/rod-and-line/author/arthur-ransome/sortby/3/

More info:

http://www.arthur-ransome-trust.org.uk/arthur-ransome/bibliography/books-by-arthur-ransome/fishing-literature/rod-and-line/

TL
MC

[Wildfisher]

If Sir Michael Hordern's    film is anything to go by the writing in Arthur Ransome's  "Rod and Line"  should be superb and well worth buying.

[Malcolm]

I've got that book somewhere but it's not one I've re-read many times like some others.

I met Michael Hordern in the 80s but I didn't know who he was until months later, when I saw him on some television programme. I was cycling, rod tied to the crossbar, to the river from a friends house in Great Durnford (Wiltshire) and the river flows quite close to the road at one point and this older gentleman was struggling to extricate his fly from a tree. I got the fly off the tree for him and we stayed nattering for ages before I headed off to my part of the river.