Just welcomed my first child into the world early Monday morning ❤ and held my dads hand as they turned his life support off Wednesday 💔 the craziest week of emotions I couldn’t possibly explain. But here I am, watching this beautiful programme from my childhood, thank you dad, may you catch the biggest fish in heaven xxx
Probably the best fishing programmes ever made for TV. The scenery, the characters, the narration. Nothing is ever perfect but this is about as close as you will ever get.
Beautifully made programme, dreamlike quality about it. Late, great Bernard Cribbins on narration. Hard to think its 30 years since it was shown. Eels now badly endangered. Great days.
I still remember walking in to the co op so many years ago and seeing the double vhs box set of this on the shelf upon its release and being so excited to get home with it, was brilliant back then and still is brilliant to watch now
The narration, the anglers and simple times makes this simple beautiful. Way before Cell Boilies, spodding and £2/3k a yr memberships and who you know didn’t rule the scene! Used to watch these with my dad and hard to beat to give you that excited feeling actually going fishing does to you as you feel like you’re there with them 🙌🏼
Why sadly? Everybody dies. It is the one thing in life that's guaranteed. When will people just accept it and stop being so hysterical just because somebody reaches that inevitable point?
@@mattiemclean9882 You are correct, of course, but I just thought that the adjective "happily" was a tad inappropriate. Death is the great leveller and the one certainty in life. As a middle aged person, it sometimes feels like middle age is natures' way of making a visit from the Grim Reaper seem not quite so bad. I suspect that like myself, you don't get too many invites to parties!
@@mattiemclean9882 The sadness is not death usually but timing and unexpectedly, if everybody died at exactly the same age under the exact same circumstances, you would have a point but as it stands, you are just a prat
Just welcomed my first child into the world early Monday morning ❤ and held my dads hand as they turned his life support off Wednesday 💔 the craziest week of emotions I couldn’t possibly explain. But here I am, watching this beautiful programme from my childhood, thank you dad, may you catch the biggest fish in heaven xxx
Wonderful comment , joy and agony bitter and sweet , your father looks over you and you child .. god bless from Dublin Ireland 🇮🇪
It’s impossible to put into words how much I love this.
Ditto, I never tire from watching these wonderful programmes
RIP Bernard. You wonderful man.
Fell in love with the charm of this program years ago, watching again its lost nothing.
Reminds me of fishing the river Avon with my father....miss you dad.
Probably the best fishing programmes ever made for TV.
The scenery, the characters, the narration.
Nothing is ever perfect but this is about as close as you will ever get.
Beautifully made programme, dreamlike quality about it. Late, great Bernard Cribbins on narration.
Hard to think its 30 years since it was shown. Eels now badly endangered.
Great days.
A wonderful series with wonderful charecters, so many happy memories stirred. Thank you so much for up loading.
I still remember walking in to the co op so many years ago and seeing the double vhs box set of this on the shelf upon its release and being so excited to get home with it, was brilliant back then and still is brilliant to watch now
The narration, the anglers and simple times makes this simple beautiful. Way before Cell Boilies, spodding and £2/3k a yr memberships and who you know didn’t rule the scene! Used to watch these with my dad and hard to beat to give you that excited feeling actually going fishing does to you as you feel like you’re there with them 🙌🏼
So so true, and in my moments and little ways, will always be with us.
Sadly, Bernard Cribbins has just joined Bernard Venables on the banks of the celestial lake (or maybe the River Styx).
Why sadly? Everybody dies. It is the one thing in life that's guaranteed. When will people just accept it and stop being so hysterical just because somebody reaches that inevitable point?
@@mattiemclean9882 You are correct, of course, but I just thought that the adjective "happily" was a tad inappropriate. Death is the great leveller and the one certainty in life. As a middle aged person, it sometimes feels like middle age is natures' way of making a visit from the Grim Reaper seem not quite so bad. I suspect that like myself, you don't get too many invites to parties!
@@mattiemclean9882 The sadness is not death usually but timing and unexpectedly, if everybody died at exactly the same age under the exact same circumstances, you would have a point but as it stands, you are just a prat
@@portcullis5622 Of course, saying sadly is perfectly normal and is the correct thing to have said.
@@mattiemclean9882settle down pet…
You'd think the BBC would repeat this gem of a series as they seam to be repeating everything else. Wonderful stuff.
No they couldn't do that, fish were racist in the 80s
It's thanks to A Passion For Angling that I fell in love with carp fishing.
Most beautiful of all the fishing on film
True gentleman and excellent fishermen
Thank you very, very much for uploading this.
Best fishing prog ever at its best none of the modern crap
I loved this book, wonderful writer, timeless ❤
Precious so precious
Those huge roach are all long gone thanks to otters and cormorants.
Pollution
Don't forget my lot, the eastern Europeans!
Absolutely @@portcullis5622
Oh Roach like that unreal, wonderful loved this.
Pure magic!!!
I wish our rivers were like this now. Such a travesty,
British coarse fishing in its finest form 👌🇬🇧
No pellets..............
When fishing was fishing 😔
What is fishing now then? It is still exactly the same for those that want to fish in that way
love this
this is great, when would this have been recorded?
Sometime between 1989 and 1992. Series first shown in 1993.
All year 1992. Great times, seems like yesterday