My Story, Ron Clay Part 2

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Jeff Spiller

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Good story Ron, sound's like you have had some up's and down's along the way.
Hope the up's outweigh the down's.
 
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I nearly started another thread for a giggle! ;-)

Another fascinating read Ron.

It must have been a very difficult time in SA living through the UN sanctions and political upheavals in the 80s.

Have you been back since? Has it changed for the better?
 
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Bob "chubber"Lancaster (ACA)

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very fine writing ron i enjoyed reading them so much i cant wait for the next one. you mention peter stone a fine angler indeed a man i would have loved to have met but sadly now never to be . but one one day maybe i,ll meet the lovely ron clay . tight lines mate
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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I was last back there in 1999, on a business/holiday period of 3 weeks. And I do keep in contact with a few old friends.

SA has changed beyond all recognition since '94 when I left. Some things for the better, some for the worse.

Although a lot of people of more races have a lot more money and wealth today, there is still a lot that have nothing, mainly because they are uneducated and un-employable. Some I know, think that this may cause a Mugabe type situation where the white farmers are kicked off their land. If that happens there will be starvation and the economy will die, just as it did in Zimbabwe.
 
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All that be as it may, BUT, did you notice . . . . Mr. Clay is wearing a baseball cap in one of those pictures?

GOTCHA!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe one of these days I'll post the picture of Ron waving around about a thousand quids worth of Barder Merlin split cane rod, and that will screw his rep' for good ;-0)

Good on you Ron though, a lovely story!

Cheers my friend . . . . .
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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Old Stoney was a very great friend to myself. He was a lovely character and indeed a very fine all round angler.

When you look at his overall angling successes whether it be as a match angler, a coarse angling specimen hunter, a fly fishermen or a sea angler, you will get an insight into really how good he was.

They don't make 'em like that today.

Thanks Peter. I brought that cap back from SA. I rather liked it as it had a Large Mouth Bass on the front.
 
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ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)

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"Agreed with morespiders, we like the SA talk really :)"



NO we don't !!!!!
 
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