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binka
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Yes, this is in the General Fishing forum by design.
A week or so ago a neighbour asked me if I would get her some river worn pebbles for some arty farty course she was doing and I duly obliged but this got me thinking…
As you do!
On the next trip to the river I collected a few pebbles of my own from a favourite swim and brought them home to accompany a bit of interesting looking driftwood which was still attached to my landing net after arriving home from a session way back last season and which had been lent up against the garage wall ever since.
Add a makeshift plinth created from an old offcut of pine wooden shelf and I had my entry for the Turner Art Prize without the need to saw a cow in half and being as I already had the stain and varnish it had cost me the equivalent of around 40p as I did have to buy some glue to ensure that it all bonded together nicely and nothing moved even when held upside down and believe me when I say it’s heavy… It’s heavy!
It’s simply entitled ‘Trent’ and considering the bellies of all those barbel which have brushed over it at times of higher water it’s worthy of living room status imo and certainly of the fifty or so quid which Habitat would likely have asked for such a fine collective of earth’s beauty back in the days when cream was the new beige but it will for now reside in the garage under The Angler’s Arms pub sign until I can further expand and accompany it with such pieces known as ‘Derwent’ and ‘Wye’.
I am so sorely tempted to add a few hooks, attached to severed line dangling from the branch along with a leger rig and a piece of varnished meat (or that readily available from motorway services without further treatment) but I’m also drawn to a maggot feeder resting up against the pebbles with a few rubber maggots scattered around.
What d’ya think…
Meat or maggots…
mg:mg:mg:
A week or so ago a neighbour asked me if I would get her some river worn pebbles for some arty farty course she was doing and I duly obliged but this got me thinking…
As you do!
On the next trip to the river I collected a few pebbles of my own from a favourite swim and brought them home to accompany a bit of interesting looking driftwood which was still attached to my landing net after arriving home from a session way back last season and which had been lent up against the garage wall ever since.
Add a makeshift plinth created from an old offcut of pine wooden shelf and I had my entry for the Turner Art Prize without the need to saw a cow in half and being as I already had the stain and varnish it had cost me the equivalent of around 40p as I did have to buy some glue to ensure that it all bonded together nicely and nothing moved even when held upside down and believe me when I say it’s heavy… It’s heavy!
It’s simply entitled ‘Trent’ and considering the bellies of all those barbel which have brushed over it at times of higher water it’s worthy of living room status imo and certainly of the fifty or so quid which Habitat would likely have asked for such a fine collective of earth’s beauty back in the days when cream was the new beige but it will for now reside in the garage under The Angler’s Arms pub sign until I can further expand and accompany it with such pieces known as ‘Derwent’ and ‘Wye’.
I am so sorely tempted to add a few hooks, attached to severed line dangling from the branch along with a leger rig and a piece of varnished meat (or that readily available from motorway services without further treatment) but I’m also drawn to a maggot feeder resting up against the pebbles with a few rubber maggots scattered around.
What d’ya think…
Meat or maggots…
mg:mg:mg:
