Who are the BAD Anglers?

Well we’re a bunch of four mates from Edinburgh, and despite the name we aren’t really all that bad at fishing. Although that said, everyone is entitled to an off day!

The name is an amalgam of our initials, Bob, Andy, and Dave. We recently added a fourth member to our illustrious club, John. That really kept in with the name? Of late is has been suggested in some quarters that we use the “L” from his Lairdships name, and alter the club name to the BALD anglers. I personally thought that was a bit offside, since a couple of us still have all our hair, even though its just a wee bit grey.

Let me introduce you to the troops. First of all myself, Bob. I took up fly fishing ten or more years ago, in order to escape from the pub. All I succeeded in doing was to swap one addiction for another, I’m also the chauffeur to the other three lunatics. Dave I first met at work, then the pub, and then behind the goals at Tynecastle, it was he who introduced me to Andy. Another fine Jambo with a taste for the drink. That got the BAD anglers fishing. Together we found John, the “Laird ‘o’ Glencorse” in a pub in Corstorphine, and the team was complete.

You might think that the demon drink has played a lot in the formation of this club, and you wouldn’t be wrong either. Nothing wrong with a bevy. But a word to the wise, to much too drink whilst out fishing has been known to reduce otherwise sane people to gibbering messes, singing silly wee songs, and telling very, very bad jokes!

                                                           Tight lines!