Michael Townsend 3
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I've just finished looking through a binder full of anglers mails from 1980.
They were given to me by an elderly man who was clearing out some draws.
Fish that were making big headlines were 6lb tench 9lb bream and 2.5lb perch. There were some beauties caught that would be big fish by today's standards, like a 3lb rudd, a few 4lb+ perch and Chris Yates 51lb carp, which incidently wasn't accepted as the new record.
Rods looked expensive and poor, with the top big fish prize being a 12ft Daiwa Harrier worth ?135!. The mitchell reels looked by far the best of the era, with some under ?10.
The mag itself is of poor quality with as much sea and fly fishing making up the text as coarse fishing.
People shouldn't knock todays angling weeklies because they are 10 times better than in 1980.
The price back then was 25p.
They were given to me by an elderly man who was clearing out some draws.
Fish that were making big headlines were 6lb tench 9lb bream and 2.5lb perch. There were some beauties caught that would be big fish by today's standards, like a 3lb rudd, a few 4lb+ perch and Chris Yates 51lb carp, which incidently wasn't accepted as the new record.
Rods looked expensive and poor, with the top big fish prize being a 12ft Daiwa Harrier worth ?135!. The mitchell reels looked by far the best of the era, with some under ?10.
The mag itself is of poor quality with as much sea and fly fishing making up the text as coarse fishing.
People shouldn't knock todays angling weeklies because they are 10 times better than in 1980.
The price back then was 25p.