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I am one of those guys who never makes fun of "the beginners" in our beloved sport. And i will help out where i can, in the hope that he/she gets a few fish and doesn't go home disheartened.
But one incident that happened, due to the inexperience of the angler, is such a bloody corker.
Well, i took a mate from work carp fishing for the day as he asked if he could come next time i went, i said of course, so Saturday it was!!
I started getting the gear out and explaining everything and what it did and so on.
Once everything was in place and the kettle was on, it was 'delve into the tackle box' time for some swift lectures on the stuff and what its purpose in life was.

Yeah, he was completely lost. So i showed him how to tie a hair rig and i set another rod up for demo purposes with a semi-fixed bolt rig to show him what purpose behind that was.
Anyway i stripped the rod back down and told him to set it up again by himself. I even made him tie his own hair rig. I wasn't watching what he was doing, i just wanted to see the end result. So i made the coffee.
Anyway about 30 min's later he was ready to chuck it out and was dangling it in the margins to check the pop up.

When he pulled it out the rig was gone!!!!
I said what happened there, did you get snagged, he said "NO, it just fell off"..........????????? I said "What? the whole rig"??? I instantly assumed it was a bad knot and reached into the margins to pick up rig ..........IT WAS GONE , the only thing there was his pop up, floating around on the surface.
I thought to myself "NO, NO HE NEVER"!!! "He bloody has"!!!
I said what did you use to tie your hair rig with?? He said that white string there, and he showed me my SPOOL OF PVA STRING!!!!!!!!!!!
After about 30 min's on the floor laughing my socks off, i managed to explain what PVA STRING was for and that it melts in water!
I gave him the "Geek of the Week" award and told him his secret was safe with me.........UNTIL NOW!!

So here starts the "Screaming Delkims GEEK OF THE WEEK" competition.

So ALAN ISAACS From Streatham Hill, London, ENGLAND is the GEEK OF THE WEEK.

And its a fact that his "PVA Rig" won't catch on!!!!

Next time i will tell you how he turned up for our next session with 2 dining room chairs for us to sit on!!

I have the photo's to prove it!!!
(not really what i mean't, when i said "bring a couple of chairs for us to sit on!!")

Nice story, made me chuckle.
But the germans i am afraid on the whole have less idea of real fishing than your friend (apologies to all germans who can fish but this is true).
Whilst fishing my local lake in North Germany i took it upon myself to give a young lad a hand as he seemed to be having a few problems catching. he had been there about two hours and watched me bagging up with roach on red maggot.
Not deterred by the language barrier i showed him my feeder setup and finally got through to him to show me his business end (steady)
On closer inspection i found to my horror the lad was using something approaching shark tackle mono that must have been at least 80 lb the hook was about a size 2/0 and the best of all he had no bait to use and was fishing the bare hook.
I gave him some terminal tackle and some light hook to nylons and hooked up a maggot for him to see how he got on eventually he was in a nice roach about a pound and a half. he finally left happy .

But i later found out he had been there all night and the previous day fishing with his "shark tackle" in the vain hope that a trout would jump onto his hook.

What a geek of the month

The top story reminds me of an incident, which was almost identical, but rather reversed.

A young angler down the bank, had obviously been watching me catch a few carp using a PVA stringer to get my free offerings out in a tight group (the winning method)

A few mins later, I see eagle eyes down the bank wind in, rebait, and cast a stringer out too.

Now a few hours later and I've had a couple of more fish and the young lad winds in, Stringer still attached.

So I wander over to help and he's only gone and used mono, he'd never heard of PVA
Sorted him out with some of mine and blow me down, he caught one.