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Ron Clay
Guest
There's an old saying that goes:
"Old fishermen never die, they simply smell that way."
I've always though that the modern wiz kid anglers depicted in the press and sometimes on this website do not really look the part. Take Jules with his aftershave, designer tee shirts and coiffeured hair, or some of the fly fishers with their expensive Musto jackets and waders.
How marvellous it would be to go back to the 60s when your old ex-army jacket was covered in bream slime, when you had a hatch of blue bottles in the car and no one minded, when a forgotten 3 month old box of smelts in the car was par for the course and when you sorted out the dead worms from the good one on the kitchen floor drew no comments from the wife whatsoever.
Take clothes for example. Ray Webb could make anything from some old sacking and binder string. In addition he made drogues, landing nets and keepnets from the stuff. Didn't half pong after a while though.
Have you a story of the rank and vile? Do you still anker for the days when men were men and anglers looked the part?
"Old fishermen never die, they simply smell that way."
I've always though that the modern wiz kid anglers depicted in the press and sometimes on this website do not really look the part. Take Jules with his aftershave, designer tee shirts and coiffeured hair, or some of the fly fishers with their expensive Musto jackets and waders.
How marvellous it would be to go back to the 60s when your old ex-army jacket was covered in bream slime, when you had a hatch of blue bottles in the car and no one minded, when a forgotten 3 month old box of smelts in the car was par for the course and when you sorted out the dead worms from the good one on the kitchen floor drew no comments from the wife whatsoever.
Take clothes for example. Ray Webb could make anything from some old sacking and binder string. In addition he made drogues, landing nets and keepnets from the stuff. Didn't half pong after a while though.
Have you a story of the rank and vile? Do you still anker for the days when men were men and anglers looked the part?