This brought a bit of a lump to my throat.
Back in the other job I had a really chancy coincidence where, unbeknown to me for many years, a very nice lady conveyancer who I had known for a long time was married to Jan Porter's best mate and they used to have jamming sessions together on the guitars, this came to light after all of those years of visiting her as I'd probably done scores of times before and as a result of a general conversation about what we'd been doing over the weekend.
Given that this was seventy or eighty miles from my homeland and Jan's old Trent stamping ground I thought it was quite unlikely but on the following visit she produced this for me...
That's not a signature that could be forged easily!
Through Jan's battle with illness I was kept informed and it was indeed a sad time, after his passing I was given a rod which I still have, Jan had been prototyping it for Shimano up until becoming ill.
A really nice bloke and a very talented angler.
