MarkTheSpark
Senior Member
In the 1970s and 1980s, Ray set the standard for pole fishing. Nobody knew more about the subject than Ray - he was a fine angler.
Is Ray still with us?
Is Ray still with us?
He won the Gladding Masters on the Nene with 14lb of bleak.
I remember the force 10 gale because going up we did 80mph but only 60mph returning - it was a southerly and we were in a Mini Clubman! Then there was the Bower demo of the needle floats at which a host of Trent stick float aces pointed to the river and asked why if they were so good so few were in use, like none, and the scaffolding blowing down breaking someone's leg, Norman Worth?
Then there was the Bower demo of the needle floats at which a host of Trent stick float aces pointed to the river and asked why if they were so good so few were in use,
After that match I think he was nicknamed "The Bionic Bleaker" I could have done with him on the Trent three weeks ago, my swim came alive with bleak that were nigh impossible to avoid. So late in the year in such numbers.Never experienced them so late in a season and dont want to ever again.I do remember Tom Pickering 'whipping' bleak out like there was no tomorrow.
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he should have fished for England except there was a Midlands/North bias in the 1970s/early 1980s.
another was Frank Barlow.