Dicky (Angling Trust PAC)
Senior Member
I have no idea what the ?Gary Doyle? incident was about as I was working all week, and I have no interest in resurrecting it, but I thought it might be nice in view of Wendy?s comments on that thread if we shared our memories of people and places that we would not have encountered had it not been for Fishing Magic.
To kick off here is mine.
I have been to a few FM fish-ins on the Trent, and these in themselves have introduced me to great anglers (Ron, Matt Brown, Swordsy and Paul B (where is he?) to name a few) and great times, but when Pikey Paul suggested an FM match, I wasn?t sure.
I have never match-fished in my life. I was as ever easily persuaded to pick up a rod and found myself at the Clattercote Memorial, pegged next to a young pretender called Marsden, who obviously fancied his chances ;-)
Despite a raging wind, I kept my method feeder within bounds and duly hooked and lost three sizeable carp due to utterly cr*p hooklength selection. I have never before or since been more embarrassed by my spontaneous gutter mouth.
?What?s up son?? came the genial refrain from our editor, and all I could muster was, ?Sh*t, b*llocks, lost another one? Graham?
Shameful!
To kick off here is mine.
I have been to a few FM fish-ins on the Trent, and these in themselves have introduced me to great anglers (Ron, Matt Brown, Swordsy and Paul B (where is he?) to name a few) and great times, but when Pikey Paul suggested an FM match, I wasn?t sure.
I have never match-fished in my life. I was as ever easily persuaded to pick up a rod and found myself at the Clattercote Memorial, pegged next to a young pretender called Marsden, who obviously fancied his chances ;-)
Despite a raging wind, I kept my method feeder within bounds and duly hooked and lost three sizeable carp due to utterly cr*p hooklength selection. I have never before or since been more embarrassed by my spontaneous gutter mouth.
?What?s up son?? came the genial refrain from our editor, and all I could muster was, ?Sh*t, b*llocks, lost another one? Graham?
Shameful!