Fishing is interesting..... there is such a broad variety of views, personalities and experiences.
Of course there will be elitists, there will be in any field of endeavour..... and of course there will be the " reverse elitist" who prides him self on his lowly situation.
What is interesting, I think is that it appears to me that people bring these attitudes TO fishing and not gain them from it.
There would be very few of us that ( in spite of our bumper sticker) have fishing as the main and determining interest in our lives, that thing that identifies us in llife and sets our atatudes.
Most of us will have some other "occupation or serious vocation" and fishing will be a pass time or hobby.
for the vast majority, our fishing attitudes and the gear we own will be in proportion to the rest of our lives.
So if a bloke is an unbearable fishing snob and has expensive gear and an exensive boat..... he will almost certainly have a flash car ( better than yours) and a big fancy house (bigger than yours) and he will be "far more important than you". His attitude will be dreived from other than fishing..... after all he can afford it.
Fishing is funny to.... because it leaves nothing lasting and durable behind as testiment to skill or dedication......so those who recon they are better than the rest of us are left with nothing to prove that but the insistance that it is so and to point at their fancy gear or the methods they use.......
because "anybody can catch one of those. .what do you land that with ? your anchor winch!!.....I saw a black fella catch one of those with a length of brickes string and a bit of bent fencing wire"
I think too that there has been a generations ingrained elitist culture in fishing. Like...... there is " Fly Fishing" everthing else is " Coarse fishing". From a time when only the rich were entitled to fish for pleasure AND the rich owned the river and the fish in it.
In the recent past, only the rich could afford to fish for game spicies... so there will of course be an elitist attitude remaining somewhere in there too.
But in recent times the type of elitism that I see is marketing driven elitism, associated with buying the latest or the funkyest. like buying SHIMANO ( or whatever) not because you realy know the difference but for the same reasons you baught NIKE shoes and designer other things.
Of course ther is elitism and there always will be, and while that is so there will be reverse elitism.
So you, you $1000 reel toteing, $600 rod waving, braid spoolin, windon leaderin, fancy boat driving, brand name luring, fancy knot tying fishing snob, can @#$%! &%$^(#@..... I stick with my second hand Alvey, supermarhet rod, monofialment line and my stinky bait.
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Where's the fun if you can't think you are better than someone else
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What the heck... the fish dont care.
Now if the fish were elitist that would be a different story
cheers
Originally Posted by oldboot
Fishing is interesting..... there is such a broad variety of views, personalities and experiences.
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. Then once I started work & bought a car ..... Rock fishing for Snapper (a bit of blackfishing & drummer) ..... & LBG + some SWF ( before it became trendy) 
.... but put 5000K on them ........ Oh well they are done now
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