Cliff Hatton
Well-known member
I am a hoarder. I’m not extreme enough to warrant a camera crew and a Griff Rees-Jones commentary but I do find it difficult to bin certain kinds of stuff, particularly letters and postcards in which people made a personal investment - and fishing magazines: each one a precious collection of anglers’ thoughts and ideas; they’re just too valuable to sling and, as time goes by, they become an increasingly fascinating insight to how our tackle has improved. A classic example of this would be a KP Morritt’s advertisement for the Intrepid Monarch Fixed Spool Reel and one for Shimano’s latest offering: talk about chalk and cheese…
And how about those ideas that didn’t make it? Has the angling public missed out? Did we scoff at those boffins’ inventions just a little too easily and allow potentially game-changing gizmos to slip screaming for recognition into the pool of obscurity?
What items that never made the grade do readers remember?
And how about those ideas that didn’t make it? Has the angling public missed out? Did we scoff at those boffins’ inventions just a little too easily and allow potentially game-changing gizmos to slip screaming for recognition into the pool of obscurity?
What items that never made the grade do readers remember?