Life Since A Passion for Angling - The Bob James Interview 

The magic of a passion for angling was Bernard Cribbins narration fairy dust .

There is something about passion for angling, it has a warmth to it goes really deep & gives me goosebumps, absolutely classic reminds me of years passed. 😍

What a lovely guy. I hope Bob and Chris one day will become friends again.

magic. i havnt seen bob on a screen since i watched the last episode of passion for angling all them years ago as a kid. there has never been anything better.

A Passion for Angling is like Lord of the Rings. A timeless masterpiece. A thing of beauty and pure poetry.

It is so great to see Bob and know he is content with everything he has accomplished in fishing. A Passion For Angling is without a doubt the greatest fishing programme ever. Every episode was incredible and both Bob and Chris were a superb duo. There will never be another like APFA but if would be good to see both Bob and Chris return to the old venues and see how they have changed in the intervening 30 years or so. Life is too short and fishing is far too important so we should all seize the day. A bucket list simply means completing a multitude of once in a lifetime dreams before you literally kick the bucket.

passion for angling was brilliant, Bob's catch of roach I will remember to my grave 👍👍

Just Fantasic

What a legend! Some great advice and some serious knowledge Bob has to offer- “Fish a method that most importantly you enjoy” That part I most agree and is what resonated with me most.

I was a super keen 23 year old carp angler when Passion for Angleing came onto our tv's. I loved it. Everyone loved it. So atmospheric.

Thanks RU-vid for recommending this. A beautiful interview.

i’m 51 now and started 🎣 at the age of 6 in the woods catching brown trout in derbyshire 😊,glorious days!,then we started fishing Barlow 😊 a duel fishery in the early 80s when REX owned it and it was a private fishery (we we’re lucky) that’s when i 1st got into Carp 🎣 as well as fly 🎣 with baby dolls for stockies 😊,i remember a passion for angling from the 📺 as a kid and i still get as much if not more pleasure watching it now as i did back then,thanks Bob and Chris and everyone involved!!,they’re still some of the most evocative 🎣 shows to this day👍.

This is a brilliant interview, especially his thoughts on interference with nature. Top man 👍👍👍

H i Bob , it's a pleasure to see your face again. Man you bring back memories . I used to be sat in front of the tv back in 93 watching every episode of Passion for Angling. great series . I only wish you and Chris would have done a round 2 of that , I think all your fans would have enjoyed that . good to see you again.

Wonderful interview. Thank you Bob and all concerned.

Hugh did a truly amazing job with PFA, and you 2, made it..... it's akin to a religion...

Brilliant! There will never be another Passion for Angling. To me, it will never be equalled. Great to catch up with Bob's angling 👍👍

class ! Passion for angling will always be the finest angling showcase and is a refreshing change from some of the present day antics.

Bob and Chris back together for just fishing trip on tv that would be something

Wonderful movies , nature , passion , friendship . can watch them endlessly. greetings from the Netherlands

Passion for angling is like a hot mug of tea and your favourite jumper on a frosty morning

Wow! What a great interview in the company of a true gentleman and amazingly gifted angler. Thoroughly enjoyed every minute. Thanks to Bob and also the Dynamite team for this beauty of a video.

Brilliant, would love to see more from Bob. He's absolutely right that you should fish in a way that you enjoy and suits you, not feel under pressure to fish like everyone else. Inspirational stuff!

Absolutely loved a passion for angling when it was on the TV all them years ago, Bob and Chris were so iconic it was just pure magic almost like being there sat with them. I managed to find the hard back book that came out at the time. I did have the Vhs video pure class, sadly over the years I sold it will have to try and find it on Dvd ❤

Been waiting decades for this. Well done dynamite baits. Nice to see Bob on the river banks. Great interview. 👍

Absolutely mesmerising and having had the pleasure to fish his stretch on the Wye on many occasions, its fantastic hearing his happiness and content still. Brilliant work Dynamite

Biggest respect for the natural ebb and flow of nature. 🙏

What a treat to listen to this man again. 👏👏👏

Bob yates and chris james are by far the best anglers in europe by a country mile ✊ nuff love.

What a fantastic interview with a really humble angler. If Bob does go back to Redmire or any estate lakes, could you please ensure you catch this for all of us to enjoy for the future? I’m an old fashioned angler and I wish there were more like Bod around to be paradigms of our sport.

Delightful. Thank you so much for taking the time to put that together. Loved every minute of it.

I love you Bob. Thank you for everything.

Loved a passion for angling deffo should make another a great series and 1 i have never tired of watching

As mesmerising as ever Bob.

Bought one of Bob's limited edition centre-pins many moons ago. Loved it so much it's in a display cabinet still unused. Don't want to damage it. Thanks Bob.

Wonderful. Love Bob and Chris. Could listen to them all day long. Well done Dynamite 🧨

Bob James legend ... loved it .

Thanks Bob and Dynbaits...took my rods on honeymoon too.. Chris Bob and Hugh were angling angels sent to inspire and reinspire the fishing fraternity..

I remember Passion For Angling, brilliant to watch, with some magical content with great banter between Chris and Bob 👍

I have grown up in Herefordshire and used to live on a farm where the Wye ran through our fields, unfortunately I wasn't an angler then but have many good memories of fishing it through my twenties, I haven't fished it for a few years now but will be back on its banks sometime soon hopefully. Great interview with Bob, I'm pretty sure I know roughly the area he fishes, lovely part of the county

What a nice man .. I was lucky enough to meet Bob many years ago . Thank you for the film

Hi Bob...great video some lovely camera and drone shots of your section of the Wye. Passion for angling was, and still is the best fishing videos ever produced. The combination of Chris Yates, Hugh Miles and yourself was just magical. Thank you for sharing.

Brilliant! Thank you.

Great interview, nice to see Bob still doing what he loves best.

Enjoyed this, love the passion, my brother fishes similar spots while I’m left to chase wild browns in the shallow lagoons of the Central Highlands in Tasmania. Made me think of my late teens spending summers in the river

Lovely river we’ve got in Herefordshire

Great to see Bob on screen again. He was kind of the forgotten man of Passion. Lost none of his love for Fishing. Content.

I'm a match angler these days but I still look back on Bob's net of 'big roach' as the most outstanding catch I have seen.

Nice to see you again.

Fantastic interview and always happy to see Bob on our screens(whatever screen that may be). Would love to see him in something similar to mortimer and whitehouse.

This is like listening to the Yoda of fishing!

Magic video Bob

Funny man. Great memories.

may god always give u good health sir🙏we love your video's

I wonder if he still fishes with a Rod Licsense.......I think he got caught once and was fined.

No mention of the Angler's Co-operative Association missing funds scandal in the late 1990s then? It would be good to hear Mr James' version of what actually happened.

A "bucket" list is a list of things to do before one "kicks the bucket"... as you asked Bob!!

Really enjoyed this thanks!

I would love to see Bob and Chris fishing together again, but I’m not even sure they are still friends. I believe both families were really close until another lady caught Bob’s eye, more easily than a trout gobbles up a juicy nymph……lol! Anyway, rumour has it Chris wasn’t too impressed about that back in the day. But, as you get older, and the currents erode away your immediate pain, eventually in life you may reach calmer waters and look back up the stream in retrospective reflection and laugh at yourself. Laugh at how foolish you were in the heat of youth. And two old boys reflecting on life, watching a float Bob down a stream whilst sharing hilarious legends and anecdotes, would seem a nice antidote to today’s mindless hustle and bustle.

A real legend

Very good fishing video

Well Bob has been a long time.Too long some might say.I know exactly what you mean about airports and globetrotting.So glad I did it when I did.A bit late on parade but enjoyed the show.

A 21st century Izaac Walton. 👍

He is talking about the secret estate lake that once housed the monster carp Harry and maybe going back sometime. The estate lies in Wimborne St Giles, at that time 30 years ago very much a secret and not open to the general public. The story of the - then - Earl is actually quite a sad story, but luckily now his son has restored the estate to its former glory. Bob must know that the lake (completetly overgrown and silted) was dredged a number of years ago and the foliage was cut back. The fish that were there in 1992-1993 are long gone.

I'd love to have Bob looking over my shoulder during a day's fishing, correcting and giving me advice. I've never caught a barbel. No chance in my local area.

Does anyone remember a fishing programme that was broadcast on a Saturday morning around 1970. It was introduced by a heavily built gentleman with an Edwardian style beard. I can see his face but can't remember the name. As a very small boy it started me off on my fishing journey to lakes and rivers, near and far.

Brill! 👌🏻

Legend

Wonderfull 😊

Do you remember the 2 pratts falling out of the tree on top of the fish they were watching

Wat a gentleman

One of my favourite swims on the Trent. Bob's a true gentleman.

He never mentioned the most important thing about passion... his friendship with Chris...

Would love to see a return of the monster myth

He didn't mention the time he got caught and fined for fishing on the river in the closed season 🤣🤣

He’s had a tough time since “ Passion””. Divorce, ACA debacle, prosecuted for fishing out of season. It may be that being a so called” fishing celebrity went to his head but I feel a certain sympathy with what he has had to deal with nevertheless.

Nothing as come close to Passion for Angling on tv since the 90s in my opinion

Can anyone please let me know how one can book this beat and location .....The name of the beat, a location address, phone number, contact details.... anything would help. Thank you

the lower wye is fecked from all the farming going on on and near the wye

Great programme was a passion for angling.i can watch it time and time again.. but I have to say that im a little guttered that Bob was poaching in 2012.would expect it from some little kids but from a TV angler I'd never expect it.. never the less without a passion for angling I wouldnt be sat on a river/lake catching big carp and barbel.