Choosing the Right Fishing Chair
There are numerous fishing chairs available on the market and the style that you go for will largely be dictated by the type of fishing you do. This article will discuss the chairs available to the novice and roving angler. Specialist fishing chairs are cover a vast range and have been discussed in the specialist fishing chair article.
- Novice Angler
If you’re new to the sport you may just be looking for a simple fold out chair that does the job and is low cost. - Roving Angler
If you’re a roving sort of angler you may look for a lightweight chair that has a minimum of fuss – it just need to be lightweight, sturdy and reliable. - Match Angler
If you’re a match angler the likelihood is that you will be sitting on your tackle box, it is therefore a whole new area of discussion that’ outside the scope of this website to discuss the sorts of fishing tackle boxes available to the match angler.
New to angling? This may be your first chair.
For the novice angler there is a limited range of fishing chairs available, many of the chairs from the camping market will be suitable for use. There is the standard fold out chair based on the traditional 1970’s type deckchair that quite simply appears to fold in half. There’s the newer equivalent of this where the chair folds in on it’s self and then there’s the well loved director style chairs. I would recommend the second type of chair that folds in on it’s self – it folds down very compactly, usually comes with a bag and is now very cheap to get hold of.
Lightweigt and compact - ideal for roving with.
There is a slightly wider range of fishing chairs available to the roving angler. Because the roving angler is past the ‘novice’ stage of the sport, they are more likely to be willing to spend a little bit more on a chair. Manufacturers are quick to latch on to this and hence there is a wider range available. There is the standard fold in half chair, but there are also the stool type chairs and the backpack/rucksack type chairs. All of these chairs focus on transportability in terms of their size and weight. I wouldn’t be so brave to recommend a chair to the roving angler – the sorts of fishing roving anglers do is vast and to recommend one chair would be almost impossible and doing them a disservice.
