making it in angling

[chesters1]

Don't have a link, but it appeared in one of the carp magazines - I THINK it was Carp World. but can't be sure.

 

It was a long time ago - say 1970s or 80s - again I THINK.

 

Browsing through tatty old carp mags with time-worn loose pages, possibly in a ramshackle carp syndicate hut, would seem your best option.

 

Sorry I can't be more helpful - the article deserved to be in an anthology somewhere.

He had some amusing incidents one was throwing his welly at a stuck fish then later obviously relishing BB's trick of using potatos for the same reason

 

It must have been a great time ,i started in 1963 purely devoting my weekends to carp but alone as even then those that sat by ponds all night were "strange" even moreso for a ten year old ,obviously i wasnt that nice a kid so didnt get any parental concern over my unusual habbits

Later ofcourse i went to where real carp lived but even in the late sixties if there was anyone else at horton kirby it was unusual but there were a group of 3 or 4 i joined and much merriment ensued

 

I have been touched by angling majesty a couple of times (in not the way some are thinking i hasten to add!!) but none every rubbed off ,,,,oi stop that !

 

My memory has always been poor but i remember a few articles ,Den Darkin ofcourse and casting and moncreiff (sp?)

Casting was my second love but i never mastered it despite trying every time i got inspired .

Never took to walker he seemed so far above us mere mortals and the only story i can remember was one about a pike in morden mere which i desperatly tried to find on a very small scale map of england to no avail but with heads full of lone holidays after this ficticious fish in this fictitious place i was happy

 

Then i got the match fishing bug and in one met another hero the late great mumford ,his greatness unfortunately left him in the match in question but i actualliy tied with a master nil nil he was in the swim next to me (wink)

Edited September 23, 2013 by chesters1