Graham Whatmore
Senior Member
Mark you are a man after my own heart and in my case you are leaning on an open door. I have always (and I mean always) been a person who gets pleasure out of the act of fishing, whether I am scratting for bits in a match as I once did or catching small roach and dace on a river I have always taken pleasure from those fish regardless of size or quantity.
I have never ever caught a fish of a lifetime nor have I kept a record, a photographor any description of the decent fish I have been lucky enough to catch, few as they are, I just relished the moment and that was all the record I wanted. To me the fish of a lifetime was a moderate two pound roach and when I eventually caught it after about 40 years of trying the pleasure I got from that one capture will never be betteredyet some will say "just the one? What a shame."
I have never ever caught a fish of a lifetime nor have I kept a record, a photographor any description of the decent fish I have been lucky enough to catch, few as they are, I just relished the moment and that was all the record I wanted. To me the fish of a lifetime was a moderate two pound roach and when I eventually caught it after about 40 years of trying the pleasure I got from that one capture will never be betteredyet some will say "just the one? What a shame."