Forget all the big names and well know anglers, who inspired you locally in your fishing or who does a lot of work for angling without expecting anything back but is an unsung hero?
Mine would be a bloke known as Ossie Bennet, for some reason all Bennets in the area where I live where known as "Ossie" at that time.
My father was a very occasional angler and consequently could pass very little knowledge on to me, so it was Ossie that taught me the basics. Ossie was a work mate of my fathers had the patience to sort out my frequent birds nests, explain the best way to feed and pass on a few bits and bobs to me.
Also Ossie caught the largest fish I'd ever seen at that time a bronze bream all of 5 or 6 lb - to me at the time it was a monster.
Mine would be a bloke known as Ossie Bennet, for some reason all Bennets in the area where I live where known as "Ossie" at that time.
My father was a very occasional angler and consequently could pass very little knowledge on to me, so it was Ossie that taught me the basics. Ossie was a work mate of my fathers had the patience to sort out my frequent birds nests, explain the best way to feed and pass on a few bits and bobs to me.
Also Ossie caught the largest fish I'd ever seen at that time a bronze bream all of 5 or 6 lb - to me at the time it was a monster.