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Posted by admin on March 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Tales Of The Riverbank – Part Seven Adapting, Adopting And Improving I wouldn’t have missed my years in club match angling for the world because this was my training ground, my apprenticeship if you like. I was a bit keen mind… I still have my diaries from the time and they [...]
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Posted by admin on February 26, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Those Were The Days I’m guessing that I fished my first club match when I was 12, maybe thirteen. Toll Bar Angling Club was typical of hundreds of similar clubs in the north of England. Members tended to come from a fairly small geographical area, were fiercely loyal and funded fishing trips by coach to [...]
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Posted by admin on January 23, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Bob’s saga continues… Wetting The Baby’s Head Despite our fun and games on the carp lake, the desire to ‘guest’ on waters didn’t completely desert the Jonah and me and another trip remains memorable for very different reasons. Moreover it was a guest session like no other. You see, we were both attending a [...]
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Posted by admin on January 9, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Tales from the days when our Bob was a naughty boy…!
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Posted by admin on December 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Toll Bar Tincas There’s an area north of Doncaster called Thorpe Marsh. Cornelius Vermuyden’s creation of the Dutch River and his diversion of the Idle so it discharged into the Trent rather than the Don drained many thousands of acres. His work wasn’t entirely successful and at some point in later history the banks [...]
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Posted by admin on December 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Bob Continues his tales from a very different era… A Dream Rod A pedantic reader might insist my first rod was the one I first fished with. In that case it was a split cane fly rod that had belonged to Ray’s dad. The first rod I actually caught a fish on belonged to Keith [...]
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Posted by admin on September 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There’s something delightfully indulgent about writing a book in which you are the central character, the glue that holds it all together. It would have been easier not to bother, after all, who on earth would want to read it? And then I got to thinking. I’d like to read it. And if I’d like [...]
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Posted by admin on September 4, 2008 · 1 Comment
Chapter One Humble Beginnings Caught In The Net I can hardly remember a time in my life when fish weren’t important to me in some way. Perhaps it’s in the genes, after all, my father fished the high seas as a trawlerman but I never fished with him. He died when I was seven by [...]
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