New Bankside Game (Blast from the Past)

Next time you get to your chosen venue nice and early in the morning and you fancy a bit of fun before you start fishing, why not try a bit of Angler Stalking?


It's a very simple game, requires very little equipment and can give hours of fun for only a modest investment of time and effort.


You can play on your own (to try and best your pb) or in larger groups to see who gets the best score.


Here's how you play: on arriving at the venue you try and find as many occupied but zipped up bivvies as possible. You score points as follows:

·         Run one full lap around the bivvy without waking the occupant - 1 point

·         Run one full lap around the bivvy while naked without waking the occupant - 50 points (This one included especially for members of this forum).

·         Sneak up on the bivvy and make loud growling noises, sufficient to get a scared response from the occupant - 5 points, rising to 15 on proof of change of underwear

·         Superglue the zip on the bivvy - 10 points

·         Turning off the bite alarms, rotating the rod pod through 180 degrees (i.e. so it's pointed at the bivvy) - 25 points

·         Setting a trip wire just outside the bivvy entrance - 5 points ( a further 45 points can be claimed if the occupant trips over it)

·         Blast an airhorn at the bivvy, shout 'See how you like loud noises whilst you're fishing' and run away - 10 points (a further 30 points awarded if you make it back to the car alive )

·         Scatter copious amount of bread on the bivvie and wait for the seagulls to arrive - 1 point for each serious patch of defecation.

The winner is the angler who, in the agreed time frame, scores the most points without getting a rod pod wrapped round their neck.