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I frequently walk the dog by the tiny River Maun that runs into a town centre dam and on through Mansfield and beyond…
I fondly recall those evenings after school some thirty five years ago where we’d sit quivertipping a single maggot to give us a fair chance of a few gudgeon from what was, back then, the novelty of running water but nowadays there are signs to inform that local byelaws prohibit fishing in the river.
That doesn’t really help when I occasionally stand for a while and see the tiny silver glints close to the riverbed on the very same bend where we would sit for hours throughout those light summer evenings until darkness drove us away.
I think I’m quite fortunate in that other waters from my early angling years are still, on the whole, very much accessible but I would dearly like to sit and have a go on that bend in the river once more.
Does anyone ever make a point of, or have the urge to, revisit the waters of their early angling days?
Are they still accessible to you?
Or is there somewhere like my river where you’d dearly like to but, for some reason, can’t?
I fondly recall those evenings after school some thirty five years ago where we’d sit quivertipping a single maggot to give us a fair chance of a few gudgeon from what was, back then, the novelty of running water but nowadays there are signs to inform that local byelaws prohibit fishing in the river.
That doesn’t really help when I occasionally stand for a while and see the tiny silver glints close to the riverbed on the very same bend where we would sit for hours throughout those light summer evenings until darkness drove us away.
I think I’m quite fortunate in that other waters from my early angling years are still, on the whole, very much accessible but I would dearly like to sit and have a go on that bend in the river once more.
Does anyone ever make a point of, or have the urge to, revisit the waters of their early angling days?
Are they still accessible to you?
Or is there somewhere like my river where you’d dearly like to but, for some reason, can’t?