[wobbly face]

I get fed up of the taste if on the beer, though I do like a good pint. 🍺
I also enjoy a good single 🥃. I did use to take a hip flask or add a dash to my coffee when fishing, but that is now many years ago. Take it or leave it. .
I've seen people drink and drink with no efect on them. Yet others, one pint and they want a fight.
I've a next door neighbout that's alcoholic. Sorry but no sympathy from me (I've had puke up my front door from them, no appology) and their family don't help matters, he still drinks (hides his cider in the shed) and they all go at weekends but she can't drink (unless she finds his cider in the shed ). I also spent the last 4 years of my working life looking after people who engaged in alcohol and drug abuse, still no sympathy from me. Don't get me wrong, I've enjoyed the work and had a good laugh at times. Also had the other side to put up with. Now they are costing the tax payer thousands 💷££££££, yet the beer and alcohol industry made thousands out of them. I do have 2 mates/fishng budies that were in the pub trade and my brother-in-law also did work for the industry.
Just a bit of advice, binge drinking at weekends is far worse on the body than having a drink daily/nightly (especially if in moderation).

 

[Hardyreels]

Can that land on the surface it's sitting on!? I'm thinking alcohol is just one of the hazards here 😬

That's exactly what we did, it will land on that large cobble with no worries. The new plane has much higher struts and suspension along with 36" balloon tiers and a more robust tail wheel. It has both front and real wing flaps, larger motor and a 3 vane adjustable pitch carbon fiber prop. That's just a few of the upgrades, I'll get some images and post them to you. I say it's like landing on a hang glider and taking off from a slingshot.

 

[JayP]

It's a Piper Super Cub; belongs to my fishing pal. They are the quintessential Bush Plane here due to their ability to land and take off on very short or rough bits of land.

That's the old plane, he finished one a couple years ago that is quite modified and I should get a few images next time out. The planes make it possible to get to places that we can't just drive a boat to however I do prefer the boat for on the river mobility.

Can that land on the surface it's sitting on!? I'm thinking alcohol is just one of the hazards here 😬

It's a shame Draco crashed but still the most badass bush plane built, Hardyreels is your friends plane classed as 'Experimental'?

 

[Vintage Badger]

Did I just witness a knitting argument?

Perhaps if you weren't p*55ed you know?

 

[LukeNZ]

Perhaps if you weren't p*55ed you know?

...steady on, or it'll be pistols at dawn. 😉

 

[ohanzee]

Perhaps if you weren't p*55ed you know?

At least I can spell pissed without numbers.

 

[Vintage Badger]

At least I can spell pissed without numbers.

If you weren't p*55ed then perhaps you'd realise I was being polite?

 

[ohanzee]

If you weren't p*55ed then perhaps you'd realise I was being polite?

I don't drink on Tuesdays.

 

[Vintage Badger]

I don't drink on Tuesdays.

In that case, may I suggest that you restrict your posting on this forum to a Tuesday, and we'll see how it goes?

 

[Perch@1]

I used to go as a guest to a partridge shoot, the day started in a pub car park and 2 bottles of champagne between the guns, was never that happy about it

Every body has different ways. Follow your style glueman. Thanks for your word.

Neil.

 

[Perch@1]

Great subject, I enjoy both Irish, Scotch and American Whisky/Whiskey but can pretty much leave most other tipples. I don't drink when fishing until I'm home of an evening.
There's an old saying "Whisky kills young men and keeps old men alive."
Well my old boss for many years knocked a bottle of Bells a day back, was 20 odd stone and lived to be ninety without a days illness in his life.
My best school mate, who farms in NZ was never a great spirit drinker is 65 and has had many health issues, despite being slim fit and athletic- his Dad is nearly a hundred, used to knock a bottle of Scotch a day and smoke a full Havana- he knocks a bottle of Brandy a day now ( kinder to his throat) and still has a Havana every morning and still Milks 250 cows from 4 am several times a week- Cigar in mouth! He looks about sixty and still drives his Roller about- never had any money worries though?

I'm happy for these people they're life style is different to mine. But if I can put more hours on my clock I'll live my life this way.

Thanks for your word Hardrar.

Neil.

 

[Perch@1]

All

I rarely drink when actially fishing but what I do like is a pint on the pub after especially if I've travelled and I'm with a few others and its been a warm day. Our days out at other fishers will also end with a pint on the way home usually in an old country pub - just the one I will point out. To me it goes to make a part of a good and also bad 😁 day out with like minded anglers and I must admit I look forward to it during the day.

Last year i got into a habit of having a small whiskey when tying flies but that had to stop as it didnt go hand in glove with getting up for work at 6 oclock. I now tie without the alcohol- unless it's the weekend 👍😁

Paul

I agree it's part of your lifestyle and enjoyment paul100. But I have arrived at my decision for different reasons.

Thanks for your word paul100.

Neil.

 

[Oldbones]

I used to drink about 10/12 bottles of beer a week and then some rum.
The beer drinking has stopped completely, I don't know why but the desire to have one beer has left me.
The rum on the other hand, I removed all the supermarket rum I had and bought some of the finer examples and only have a couple of glasses on a Friday or Sat evening when all the house is at peace. Sometimes my wife joins me and have a brilliant time talking.
I have never ever mixed fishing and drinking, never, in my eyes it feels like taboo.
Needless to say I feel better and I am loosing weight, I am not that over weight but it wont hurt.

 

[Paul_B]

I like a couple of pints on an sunny afternoon in the garden and in the past I have been known to have a few beers while sea fishing in Norfolk while on holiday, its only a couple of hundred yards back to the caravan so its not far to walk back. However that is the only time that I would drink while fishing

 

[diawl bach]

Hemingway had some snappy booze related quotes :-


"I drink to make other people more interesting"


“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

 

[jerryrum]

My best friend and I occasionally get away to a cottage in Wales, by the Wye.

It's away from other people so we can spend the evening getting pissed around the campfire and not bother anyway.

The normal plan is up, leisurely breakfast, walk along the river to whichever beat we have and then fish until we've had enough.

I remember the first time we had the beat directly outside the cottage. We went back for lunch and ended up sharing a bottle of wine. We then stuck a couple of cans of lager in our bags and headed back to the river.

It was the most frustrating afternoon of fishing of my life.

I just had no co-ordination what so ever. Constantly got snagged on trees, my leader got in tangles that I then couldn't undo and I didn't dare wade out to get to the decent runs.

I would never drink and fly fish again if I wanted to enjoy the fishing.

The flip side to that is when you are having a drinking evening with a bit of fishing thrown in. Nothing wrong with sitting by a pond full of Rudd and seeing if you can still get a fly out to the big ones in the middle after two bottles of Merlot, just don't be surprised if you can't.

 

[Perch@1]

I haven't had a drink for 16 years. I gave it up when daughter was born and my lad was 1 year old. I was not a good drunk and I didn't want my kids to ever see me drunk. So because I'm fly fishing less than 16 years I've never had the opportunity to mix the two but I could only imagine the types of situations I'd get myself into if I did. I probably wouldn't survive the first outing or I'd lose all my gear 😂

Well spoke webblade.

Neil

 

[blithfield2]

Sorry to disturb a trend..............but I turn up on the Derbyshire Wye and start fishing at about 11.00hrs and keep nervously consulting my watch........so I can avail myself of both the lunchtime menu and the delicious draught beers available at The Peacock hotel at Rowsley. It's not all about catching fish!

 

[webblade]

Sorry to disturb a trend..............but I turn up on the Derbyshire Wye and start fishing at about 11.00hrs and keep nervously consulting my watch........so I can avail myself of both the lunchtime menu and the delicious draught beers available at The Peacock hotel at Rowsley. It's not all about catching fish!

No trend disturbed. Each answer seemed to be a little different to the last. Some like a drink, some don't, some have one and fish, some don't. No right or wrong just all on a slightly different journey with some things in common and some not

 

[anzac]

No trend disturbed. Each answer seemed to be a little different to the last. Some like a drink, some don't, some have one and fish, some don't. No right or wrong just all on a slightly different journey with some things in common and some not

Exactly. Your life = your choice. Full stop.