Fishing Answers
if fishing is the worlds largest participating sport why is it never on TV?
they have golf,darts,snooker and even bowls for gods sacke all on tv but nothing about the worlds largest participating sport fishing.with millons of pounds in competitions every year.modern fishing is is not boring but very exciting.
Public Comments
- Don't you have Sky TV - it's on all of the time....
- because fishing is the most boring sport, although golf, darts, cricket and football are also boring and they are on all the time, so who knows
- It might be enjoyable to prticipate in but I would imagine the mere thought of watching someone sit for 7 hours holding a stick with a worm tied to a piece of string hanging in the water wouldnt make good viewing. Although, by some of the answers it appears to have caught on - i'm amazed!
- it`s on discovery real time - all the time.
- Fishing may be exciting, but watching it is not
- Because its boring.....what if they spend 16hours at a pond and no one catches anything!! You can never tell if someone is going to catch something or not.
- I don't know what part of the country you're in, but in the Southeast it's not uncommon to find at least 3 or 4 Outdoor Channels available and there's almost always a fishing program on at least one of them,... damn near all of them on Saturdays & Sundays.
- I love fishing,but must disagree with you.It is not a great spectator sport.................We have Matt Hayes and all the other boys on TV I think that's enough......................Go out side and fish!
- because the contestants must remain quiet in order not to disturb the fish. Do you really want to see a load of men Generally speaking) casting lines and sitting down reading a newspaper and whispering about what a great invention the flywheel is, until a dopey fish decides to bite on a pretend fly? i'd rather wacth a bloke hitting a ball 300 yards and walk after it to knock it in a hole, sounds like fun compared to fishing.
- ESPN2 has fishing coverage most weekends during the summer. It's not live coverage, but a summary of the weekly tournament. They also have other fishing shows, too.
- Discovery Real Time on Sky at the weekend is virtually nothing but fishing. Really hacks us New Yankee Workshop fans off,lol
- Yes there are several programs on TV about fishing. There is B.A.S.S. that usually runs on ESPN, and there is In Fisherman. You can also catch fishing shows at different times on Sat. & Sun. on ESPN. For more info go to BASSMASTERS.COM and you should be able to find out more.
- I guess it depends where you live. There are a lot of fishing shows in the US.
- Hmmm I live in Texas and have direcTV. I am in the middle of watching 4 straight hours of fishing between a couple of channels. Oh Yeah... There are this many shows on just about everyday of the week. In-Fisherman, Bass Pros, Jimmy Houston, Bill Dance, Sport Fisherman TV, Bass Pro Shops Fishing, Cabellas blah blah blah... there are lots more!
- I'm kind of insulted by these answers from people who think fishing consists of sitting and drowning worms for hours while reading the newspaper. Why don't these people go to some forum where they have some expertise rather than posting their ignorance here? Real fishermen are too busy fishing to read a newspaper when they're out there. As many other posters have commented, there are a number of fishing shows on cable and satellite in the U.S. As anyone who's familiar with any kind of TV show knows, it's easy to cut out the boring parts of anything and only show the interesting parts, and so you aren't "treated" to watching guys fishing and not catching. (I guess DopeyDora, JanetLouise, and BurntEmbere are as clueless about TV as they are about fishing.) As to the real reason: the people at the big TV networks are just like the people mentioned above. That is, uninformed, and not interested in becoming informed. They may say there's not enough money in the sport to justify putting it on the air, but how can they know if they haven't tried it?
