During the holidays, we in the UK can be seen doing only three things: playing football, fishing or "taking care" of anything that goes beyond our definition of "recreation". You see, our love for football runs in our English bloods. And if there's another sport that we are meant to be in love with aside from football, that sport would be fishing. You don't believe the fishing part? Come on, try to look around you (but don't take this literally). Our territory is blessed with thousands of pristine canals and rivers where we go boating with our families and friends during holidays. And since boating alone would be really boring for a holiday activity, we fish too.

Besides, fishing is your next best activity option after renting a not-so-cheap boat. And also, if it isn't as "nationalistic" to us as football, why would this craze called fishing lure collecting exist? There are actually antique fishing lures and a whole bunch books dedicated to it like Captain John's Fishing Tackle Price Guide by John A. Kolbeck, Classic Fishing Lures and Tackle by Eric Lowell Sorenson and Old Fishing Lures & Tackle: Identification & Value Guide by Carl F. Luckey.

Also, like football, fishing can be done all year round. There is an activity called ice fishing and there are ice fishing lures specifically made for it. The appeal of ice fishing comes with the fact that it's quite, in commonsense terms, unconventional. During ice fishing you'll literally be dealing with a frozen lake and limiting yourself in a tiny gap in the ice to catch fish. But that's the beauty of this activity. It will teach you how to be patient and keen and thus, improve your general fishing skills. Fishing on the ice requires a lot of patience. Plus, if you really want to take ice fishing seriously, you need to use ice fishing lures and use them good