How good is your memory ?

[wotnobivvy]

I once went on holiday on the Broads, and completely forgot how to use my trusty Matchman Hooktyer. I had to use readymade hooks to nylon until a few evenings practise got me back on track

[Vagabond]

 

 

Phone The longer ago and the fewer living witnesses the larger the catch

 

 

 

I lie - an accepted custom whilst fishing in America. If challenged on a particular session or fish - I fess up the truth

LOL Most of the anglers I know are pretty scrupulous with the truth - those that are not will very soon get sussed. As my first post indicates, it can sometimes be difficult recalling the fish you have caught, let alone remembering invented ones!

 

That said, on many occasions when I have had a good catch, and a stranger comes along with their usual "any luck?" I always reply "not a lot" which I maintain is truthful enough as I usually have to work quite hard for my fish - but gives them the impression I am not catching - which means they will go away soon !

Edited February 25, 2015 by Vagabond

[BoldBear]

I'll always remember catching my very first Barbel (from Newbury on the Kennet back in 75) as if it were yesterday, I had a larger Barbel a couple of hours later but I can't remember much about the second one.

 

I was using a B.James & Son Richard Walker MKIV Carp rod and a Mitchell 300 reel loaded with 8lb Silcast line and a size 4 specialist hook baited with Plumrose Luncheon meat.

It was a warm evening with approx 4 8ths cloud (I was a meteorologist in the RN LOL).

 

I can clearly remember casting, then through my fingers on the line feeling my small link leger (5 SSG) dragging and bouncing along the gravel bed and feeling the streamer weed moving against my line and the magic plucks followed by the take away and my mate saying 'don't panic its only a small one' (it was 5lb 8oz and it looked huge to me) and from that moment I was hooked.

 

I don't remember my first Carp or my first of any other species besides that Barbel, but I do remember my first 20lb Carp and my first 5lb Tench and 5lb Chub and my first 2lb Roach, and also my one and only Wels Catfish but none of them are remembered as clearly as that first Barbel.

 

Keith

Edited February 26, 2015 by BoldBear

[wunnus]

Cannot remember how good my memory is.

Gets better after a few pints though.

[chesters1]

Memory ?