dezza
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I remember years ago setting up for a spot of barbel fishing on the Trent. I erected my brolly with storm sides and was just fastening my rod pod together when a voice broke the still late summer afternoon air.
"Here for the duration are we?"
I turned and there in all his glory was a barbel policeman.
I'd never met one before and it seemed that he objected to the fact that I had erected a small shelter, was going to fish two rods and had a pod! It was no use explaining that the concept of the modern rod pod was invented by **** Walker, or that JW Martin the "Trent Otter" probably used something similar whan he was "fishing the plumb". No, according to him, I was a blaggard.
But I've been using a rod pod since 1989, which certainly did not recieve any objection in South Africa. Why must people object to them here?
"Here for the duration are we?"
I turned and there in all his glory was a barbel policeman.
I'd never met one before and it seemed that he objected to the fact that I had erected a small shelter, was going to fish two rods and had a pod! It was no use explaining that the concept of the modern rod pod was invented by **** Walker, or that JW Martin the "Trent Otter" probably used something similar whan he was "fishing the plumb". No, according to him, I was a blaggard.
But I've been using a rod pod since 1989, which certainly did not recieve any objection in South Africa. Why must people object to them here?
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