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Wow, how long has Harry been designing Jackalls?I was talking to Paul recently about the Exmouth episode. It wasn't his idea, and the action was dictated by the sponsor. It did achieve the aim of having the sponsor's product talked about though. He is with Suzuki this year. I did find that he's a pretty down to earth bloke with a refreshing sense of humour and I look forward to fishing with him in the future. He's a guy I'd gladly share a boat with. Without sponsorship we wouldn't have fishing shows on TV so I guess informed viewers can just ignore the ads and enjoy the action.
Thats exactly right.This morning I watched the ET episode in PNG with your mate Basser.Its was great I must say.Good fish caught and had me dreaming of an exotic,untouched,wild location and I loved every bit of it.It did for me what the articles in mags 30 years ago about the Territory and Kimberly did for me back then.They made me dream.ET probably has more cr@p to shove down everybody's throat than any other fishing program that we see in Australia but I still enjoyed it.In the end its more about the personalities on the screen and the truth is even if I dont like them I will watch it anyway.With the exception of Fishing WA.(If I see another spanish mac caught the plasma is going to have a remote thrown at it!!)With regards to Rex....Nothing bad can be said about him.He brought fishing to mainstream TV in the 80s.He preached catch and release well before it was fashionable and he made the kids that fished like me dream about exotic locations.I can put up with hearing about the Rex Hunt combos for that.Toddy
Harry is not only the face of Jackall in Australia but the sole distributor - Chris
rex was easy to ignore - the brand placement was fairly limited ........ even the first couple of series of I Fish were limited to the tacklerat segment - but now the likes of I fish & ET would devote 30-40% of the show to adds & infomercials ......... its just over the top. Chris
Are you sure about that?
Harry showed me some of his Barra lures at the Tackle Show last year. He was keen on trying some in PNG. They didn't seem to have the hooks to handle a Barra, let alone a Black Bass.
Not Jackalls Chris, I've never used them for Barra. The Doozers I use in PNG now have VMC's on them. I've not seen a Jackall yet that could handle a Barra out of the box, but maybe they've changed since this time last year. Most hooks on the TN's are less than suitable for Bass.