Good Sorts: Canterbury angler creates social fishing group

February 28, 2021

Fishing Buddies Canterbury makes sure no one has to reel in the catch of the day alone.

This week's Good Sorts is a Canterbury man who's combined his knack for both fishing and bringing people together to create a booming social circle with a difference.

Jamie Crafts Roelink created Fishing Buddies (Christchurch area) three years after a friend passed away as a means of combating his depression.

The online community regularly gets strangers together with varying levels of skill to fish and have a yarn.

Crafts Roelink said it was about trying and "give it a go and see if anyone 'likes', so to speak". 

"Now I've got 4300 people to go fishing with." 

One man who joined the group, Russell, told 1 NEWS, "You might not catch a single fish in a day but you've sat for four or five hours with a great bunch of people."

"What more do you want? You want to fishing, you want to have some buddies."

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