maverick 7
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I have often sat and thought about my many years I have spent on the bank and I have to confess that my mind always takes me back to the early years....the years when I was in my teens and early twenties....that would be around the early 70's....
That seems to be the time that I enjoyed most......despite the fish being many times smaller than they are today.
Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder how many of you feel the same....I wonder how many of you prefer that time of your fishing life compared to todays offerings....I wonder how many of you prefer the unmistakeable smell of roach and bream on your kit rather than carp and barbel....do carp and barbel have a smell?.....anyway, let's have a little debate and maybe we can vote on it.
I suppose you need to be at least in your mid 40's to be able to fully compare today to the times I am referring to...but it goes without saying, if ANY of you have any thoughts about this topic....please make them known.
To be honest....I would like to see those times return....I wonder if we could go back to the years when the Middle Level Drain, Sixteen Foot Drain, Denvers Sluice (Ten Mile Bank), Sibsey Trader, River Witham, Foss Dyke, River Nene, Welland and the waters of the Norfolk Broads...were top dogs when it came to quality venues.(in this neck of the woods anyway). I am sure there are many more venues in various parts of the country that I am unaware of that are hardly fished today....but for you guys who used to fish them when you were much younger...that is the time of your angling life I want you to compare to todays fishing scene.
I am thinking of ...and have been for number of years now.... to have a few days down on the Middle Level in places like Pophams Eau and Three Holes...could these times ever return and take the place of todays popular fishing....Is today's fishing becoming boring and do anglers need a fresh challenge? If so....these places are perfect for that sort of thing.
The once great waters mentioned above are all waiting for us to return....I know a tackle dealer in Wisbech who told me not so long ago that the Middle Level is fishing very well.....could we return there and make the old days our future once more...could we ever get back to the massive matches they used to hold on these and other great venues of the past....or are they over forever?
Those days are forever in my heart...and I see absolutely no reason why at least I myself can't return to the TRUE glory days of angling.
So, who prefers today's angling compared to yesteryear....and why?
...and who prefers the fishing of years gone by compared to todays...and why?
Maverick
That seems to be the time that I enjoyed most......despite the fish being many times smaller than they are today.
Just for curiosity's sake...I wonder how many of you feel the same....I wonder how many of you prefer that time of your fishing life compared to todays offerings....I wonder how many of you prefer the unmistakeable smell of roach and bream on your kit rather than carp and barbel....do carp and barbel have a smell?.....anyway, let's have a little debate and maybe we can vote on it.
I suppose you need to be at least in your mid 40's to be able to fully compare today to the times I am referring to...but it goes without saying, if ANY of you have any thoughts about this topic....please make them known.
To be honest....I would like to see those times return....I wonder if we could go back to the years when the Middle Level Drain, Sixteen Foot Drain, Denvers Sluice (Ten Mile Bank), Sibsey Trader, River Witham, Foss Dyke, River Nene, Welland and the waters of the Norfolk Broads...were top dogs when it came to quality venues.(in this neck of the woods anyway). I am sure there are many more venues in various parts of the country that I am unaware of that are hardly fished today....but for you guys who used to fish them when you were much younger...that is the time of your angling life I want you to compare to todays fishing scene.
I am thinking of ...and have been for number of years now.... to have a few days down on the Middle Level in places like Pophams Eau and Three Holes...could these times ever return and take the place of todays popular fishing....Is today's fishing becoming boring and do anglers need a fresh challenge? If so....these places are perfect for that sort of thing.
The once great waters mentioned above are all waiting for us to return....I know a tackle dealer in Wisbech who told me not so long ago that the Middle Level is fishing very well.....could we return there and make the old days our future once more...could we ever get back to the massive matches they used to hold on these and other great venues of the past....or are they over forever?
Those days are forever in my heart...and I see absolutely no reason why at least I myself can't return to the TRUE glory days of angling.
So, who prefers today's angling compared to yesteryear....and why?
...and who prefers the fishing of years gone by compared to todays...and why?
Maverick