I was rooting ’round my rod collection the other day when I came across a glass rod which had been given to me about 20 years ago. It’s an Abu Lapplandia Zoom 8′6 #6 2 piece which was given to me [along with an Abu Delta reel - now sadly lost] by an [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Glass
Posted in Tackle on September 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Great Expectations
Posted in Friends, Good Stuff on September 19, 2007 | 5 Comments »
My 50th birthday is approaching fast and SWMBO asked if there was anything I wanted for a special present. That was her first mistake
I’ve had a hankering to fish cane & silk for a while now. I’m not sure why, maybe it’s because I have too much hi-tech paraphernalia cluttering [...]
Confessions of a Duffer
Posted in Other people's writing on September 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
These papers do not boast of great sport. They are truthful,
not like the tales some fishers tell. They should appeal to many
sympathies. There is no false modesty in the confidence with which
I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men are born duffers;
others, unlike persons of genius, become so by an [...]