Sport takes many forms from the ordinary to the utterly strange, but what connects all those involved, either as participants or spectators, is the element of fate and how they try to move the luck into their experience. Rugby players could have a pair of lucky boots, a cricketer a lucky box (presumably one that won’t have been needed to fulfil its protection) as he prepares to go out to bat. For the footie fan, it could be having a drink at an allotted time, at a certain pub with the same friends and heading out at the same time each week to walk to the ground.

Angling is the sport with the greatest participation level of any other (it is said) and fate is a a inherent element of it. Going to a specific spot will involve using the same fishing tackle as the time which had the best success in terms of either quantity or weight of catch. So the same fishing rods will come out as was used on that day, in the hope that once again the piscatorial divinity will smile and repeat the occasion.

It doesn’t happen like that of course. Lucky shirts, boots, box or fishing rods make no difference at all since those are the vicissitudes of sport and the reason why we love it. When Havant and Waterlooville went to Anfield and turned over Liverpool or Stevenage saw off Newcastle United in the FA Cup, it had zero to do with the central defenders’ choice of underwear that day, it’s just that one team played out of it’s skin and the other very, very badly.

If a fisherman is sitting by the canal and someone wanders by, they may well inquire if he’s having much luck? In fact, any angler ought to take offence at the idea that his success or otherwise anything has anything to do with something so fleeting when it should to have everything to do with his skill and judgment of the conditions, knowledge of how the fish are feeding, where and on what. And if he is having a rotten day, it could just be that the they are just not feeding at all and doesn’t matter what fishing tackle he’s decided upon, nothing will make the remotest difference. Not even those legendary lucky fishing rods.

Chances of a trillion to the power of a billion and above are working upon everything all the time and while most of them are without any interest, once in a while some of them come together in strange ways. If you are drowning maggots in one particular part of the river and all the fish for miles around have decided to congregate there causing a drought of the usual food, it does not change the odds which fishing tackle you have, you are going to have a brilliant day and your fishing rods could well break under the strain. At the same time the fellow half a mile up the river may be wondering if there has been a disastrous chemical leak somewhere.

Everything and none of which has anything that depended on fortune to happen. It just did and you can make things go in your favour by working the right things at the right time in the right way and if you do then you are far more likely to succeed but there are very rare occasions when nothing you do will make a difference and then you may just as well pack your things and go home.

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