In December 2006 I started to suffer from a bad back which was so bad that I was off work for 4 months. Fortunately my back, although still painful at times, is a lot better and when I decided to start going fishing again I just assumed that I was going to use my old Fox Recliner chair.

I quickly discovered that the Fox Recliner really is not the chair you want to sit in if you have a bad back! Due to it's design I found that the vast majority of the time I was slumped in the chair, leaning forward and curving my back in all the wrong places.

Like many anglers the concept of travelling light just doesn't seem to apply with me. Even as a teenager when I could only get to waters I wanted to fish on foot or by public transport I always insisted on carrying an amount of gear that would make a Sherpa think twice all because of the thought of "what if?"