dezza
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Where is he these days?
Way back when it was quite normal for anglers throughout the year to fish for all species, including salt water fish, my season, beginning in June, started off with tench. Then I might have fished for bream or rudd. Autumn to me in the old days was barbel time and as October approached we would look forward to pike or roach fishing. Serious chub fishing never started until January and the back end was spent with roach or pike or even dace.
All this was interspersed with trips out at sea for cod or bass.
But there was something special about springtime. Time to be out after trout with the fly rod of course as the buds developed on the trees.
Angling was a magic year, always something to look forward to. And whilst I am able I will do it again; I will remain an all-round angler. Roach over the next couple of month, then it will be trout with the fly in ernest.
And I've just learned that I will be going to the antipodes again, this time in springtime, September and October.
And New Zealand ahoy.
But the way I see it, the great all round angler, as exemplified by Mr Crabtree is no more.
What do you think?
Way back when it was quite normal for anglers throughout the year to fish for all species, including salt water fish, my season, beginning in June, started off with tench. Then I might have fished for bream or rudd. Autumn to me in the old days was barbel time and as October approached we would look forward to pike or roach fishing. Serious chub fishing never started until January and the back end was spent with roach or pike or even dace.
All this was interspersed with trips out at sea for cod or bass.
But there was something special about springtime. Time to be out after trout with the fly rod of course as the buds developed on the trees.
Angling was a magic year, always something to look forward to. And whilst I am able I will do it again; I will remain an all-round angler. Roach over the next couple of month, then it will be trout with the fly in ernest.
And I've just learned that I will be going to the antipodes again, this time in springtime, September and October.
And New Zealand ahoy.
But the way I see it, the great all round angler, as exemplified by Mr Crabtree is no more.
What do you think?
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