Seat Boxes

My son has become a keen fisherman over the last eighteen months. He
wants a Milo seat box for christmas. Our local tackle shop advises
other brands......has anyone good or bad experiance with this brand?
The box is £300 and want to make sure that we make the right choice....

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My son has become a keen fisherman over the last eighteen months. He
wants a Milo seat box for christmas. Our local tackle shop advises
other brands......has anyone good or bad experiance with this brand?
The box is £300 and want to make sure that we make the right choice....

The Milo boxes are superb, but rather overpriced IMO. I went for a Fox
match box instead when I was looking for a continental style box - quite
a bit cheaper and pretty much as good. The difference in price for the
box goes a long way towards getting all the little extras that make a
good box into a fantastic one - footplate, wheels, rests and winders all
add up.

HTH

Will
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My son has become a keen fisherman over the last eighteen months. He
wants a Milo seat box for christmas. Our local tackle shop advises
other brands......has anyone good or bad experiance with this brand?
The box is £300 and want to make sure that we make the right choice....

If at all possible discourage him. Offer to spend as much on other tackle
or, better, on tuition or fishing trips. That money would, for eg, pay for
a week's b&b by a first class Irish river...

A seat box will prevent him fishing many of the more productive swims.
It will discourage him from moving if a swim dies.
If he does move it will make him so clumsy that he will scare fish away
as he approaches.
It will be too heavy to take on a bike
or to carry when rambling up a long overgrown bank
and it will hold far too much tackle.

He will catch fewer fish if he uses a seat-box.

Ok, his friends probably have them and he will garner a certain amount of
'bank cred' by having the latest model - but he will gather far more 'bank
cred' in the long run by habitually wandering off into the bushed up banks
where a seat box could not go and returning with large fish scared there by
encumbered anglers on the open banks.

Cheerio,

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On 5 Nov, 13:27, Derek Moody wrote:
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My son has become a keen fisherman over the last eighteen months. He
wants a Milo seat box for christmas. Our local tackle shop advises
other brands......has anyone good or bad experiance with this brand?
The box is £300 and want to make sure that we make the right choice.....

If at all possible discourage him. Offer to spend as much on other tackle
or, better, on tuition or fishing trips. That money would, for eg, pay for
a week's b&b by a first class Irish river...

A seat box will prevent him fishing many of the more productive swims.
It will discourage him from moving if a swim dies.
If he does move it will make him so clumsy that he will scare fish away
as he approaches.
It will be too heavy to take on a bike
or to carry when rambling up a long overgrown bank
and it will hold far too much tackle.

He will catch fewer fish if he uses a seat-box.

Ok, his friends probably have them and he will garner a certain amount of
'bank cred' by having the latest model - but he will gather far more 'bank
cred' in the long run by habitually wandering off into the bushed up banks
where a seat box could not go and returning with large fish scared there by
encumbered anglers on the open banks.

Cheerio,

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Thanks Derek.....I pass on your comments. He may wonder how I have
become knowledgeable about such things....!

Regards

Peter