Richard Isaacs
Senior Member & Supporter
I’m sure at one point or another you’ve probably read a post or ten of mine moaning about fishing chairs. Or to be more precise roaming river chairs.
imo there isn’t a decent river chair in existence. (To buy new now)
by decent I mean in the 3kg weight category and will sit on all 4 legs on a 45° slope. Korum have just had another bash at it and it’s a disaster imo and I haven’t even sat on it. We don’t want reclining chairs for roaming and we don’t want those fixed position back legs.
Theve give us another 6 inch on the front and they call it a river chair
ok stop ranting rich!!! Let’s go back 10 or more years....... Korum again but this time they had our product! unfortunately you had to buy it with this poxy rod sling that has less material on it than my mrs’s bra’s and an even more poxy bag that had the characteristics of a Tesco shopping bag...... but they had this chair in that roving kit. Maybe not to everyone but to me it’s the PERFECT roaming river chair. In the last few years and I dread to think how much money I’ve thrown at chairs, I’ve always had an eye out for one of these being sold without the other crap they came with. I bought a light weight accessory chair which is the same design pretty much apart from the fact at over 5kg it’s not light and it’s bulky.
this morning I’ve done a 2 hour round trip and picked up my little gem from an eBay er that agreed the sale for a reasonable price. (Secretly I’d of paid double to get one) got it home and had a play. I’ve only had it a couple hours and I’m just itching to write about it. It’s bloody awesome. These first pictures below say enough to start.
but then my accessory chair will do that so we move on to the next picture!!!
A shade over the 3kg Mark
It’s almost perfect now but not quite. The thing about Korum roving chairs is they are designed to be carried with a bag on your shoulders.
the newer stuff doesn’t work well for me..... reason why is well for one you have to have a Korum ruck bag.
For 2 the straps on the ruckbag go over the top of the newer chairs and for big guys like me in big winter coats it’s too tight. I resorted to buying a fox ruck all in the end for chair carrying and that’s a great system.
This chair also has a great system. The chair has its own set of back pack straps. (Accessory chair doesn’t)
It also has two clips at the top of the straps that are designed to go round the top handle of a bag. Every bag has a handle and there for this wonderful little chair (didn’t know this until today) will hook up to any bag you like even a non rucksack type and you can carry them as a one piece system on your shoulders using the chair straps not the bag straps. Bloody amazing!!!
So I think or should I say hope this will probably be the last you’ll hear me winging about river chairs.
I hope Korum guys read this and think about putting these older better designs back out into the world. Not just in the roving kits but a product on its own for us light travelling river boys. They had it once and I’m over the moon that my search has finally come to a happy end.
imo there isn’t a decent river chair in existence. (To buy new now)
by decent I mean in the 3kg weight category and will sit on all 4 legs on a 45° slope. Korum have just had another bash at it and it’s a disaster imo and I haven’t even sat on it. We don’t want reclining chairs for roaming and we don’t want those fixed position back legs.
Theve give us another 6 inch on the front and they call it a river chair
ok stop ranting rich!!! Let’s go back 10 or more years....... Korum again but this time they had our product! unfortunately you had to buy it with this poxy rod sling that has less material on it than my mrs’s bra’s and an even more poxy bag that had the characteristics of a Tesco shopping bag...... but they had this chair in that roving kit. Maybe not to everyone but to me it’s the PERFECT roaming river chair. In the last few years and I dread to think how much money I’ve thrown at chairs, I’ve always had an eye out for one of these being sold without the other crap they came with. I bought a light weight accessory chair which is the same design pretty much apart from the fact at over 5kg it’s not light and it’s bulky.
this morning I’ve done a 2 hour round trip and picked up my little gem from an eBay er that agreed the sale for a reasonable price. (Secretly I’d of paid double to get one) got it home and had a play. I’ve only had it a couple hours and I’m just itching to write about it. It’s bloody awesome. These first pictures below say enough to start.
but then my accessory chair will do that so we move on to the next picture!!!
A shade over the 3kg Mark
It’s almost perfect now but not quite. The thing about Korum roving chairs is they are designed to be carried with a bag on your shoulders.
the newer stuff doesn’t work well for me..... reason why is well for one you have to have a Korum ruck bag.
For 2 the straps on the ruckbag go over the top of the newer chairs and for big guys like me in big winter coats it’s too tight. I resorted to buying a fox ruck all in the end for chair carrying and that’s a great system.
This chair also has a great system. The chair has its own set of back pack straps. (Accessory chair doesn’t)
It also has two clips at the top of the straps that are designed to go round the top handle of a bag. Every bag has a handle and there for this wonderful little chair (didn’t know this until today) will hook up to any bag you like even a non rucksack type and you can carry them as a one piece system on your shoulders using the chair straps not the bag straps. Bloody amazing!!!
So I think or should I say hope this will probably be the last you’ll hear me winging about river chairs.
I hope Korum guys read this and think about putting these older better designs back out into the world. Not just in the roving kits but a product on its own for us light travelling river boys. They had it once and I’m over the moon that my search has finally come to a happy end.
