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Colin North, the one and only
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Who remembers the 14 foot 6 inch Milbro Enterprise rod and the Ambidex 6 fixed spool reels. The rod weighed in at just under 15 ounces and if you picked one up today you would wonder how anyone could have stood in the river trotting down using such a rod all day long (which we did). My first pole was a 21 feet long fibre glass Lerc and weighed about a ton. Didn't stop me from catching fish though. No Skeetex snow boots, just wellies or waders with 3 pairs of socks. No thermal coats or lined trousers, just a parka that weighed a three hundredweight when it got wet and two pairs of trousers.
Those were the days. Makes you wonder how old gits like me survived.
Oh, and one more thing; in those days it would have been beyond the comprehension of 99.9% of the popultion that in November 2003, one could sit in front of a "Telly" with a "keyboard" and write a message such as this that would be instantly available for anyone else interested to read. When I was the Secretary of a local fishing club years ago, production of the club bulletin was a mammoth task involving creating Roneo stencils, getting covered in ink by the manual hand cranked printing machine, spending hours writing out envelopes and nearly as long sticking the down and putting stamps on them.
I glad things have progressed.
Those were the days. Makes you wonder how old gits like me survived.
Oh, and one more thing; in those days it would have been beyond the comprehension of 99.9% of the popultion that in November 2003, one could sit in front of a "Telly" with a "keyboard" and write a message such as this that would be instantly available for anyone else interested to read. When I was the Secretary of a local fishing club years ago, production of the club bulletin was a mammoth task involving creating Roneo stencils, getting covered in ink by the manual hand cranked printing machine, spending hours writing out envelopes and nearly as long sticking the down and putting stamps on them.
I glad things have progressed.