I am just returning to fishing after a 31-year break and apart from replacing line, landing net and leads have not changed anything else. Even my hooks are old ones (semicircular Mustad gold) with the barbs ground away.
I possess an Intrepid Classic fixed-spool reel, a Mitchell 300 and a Grice & Young Gypsy d'Or centre-pin. For rods I have a J B Walker of Hythe kit-built R Walker Mk IV Avon from my teens, a R Walker Mk IV kit-built bought on eBay, and a hollow glass 2lb curve, 11' rod from the 1970s. I also have a Heron bite alarm from the 1960s but making it work in the absence of the old Ever Ready batteries is proving tricky, though I have plenty of the old patterned cigarette foil which catches low light very well for ledger bite indicators. Floats are porcupine quills, various bird quills and a few balsa, part home-made and part bought.
My first rod was a 19th-century cane fly rod from a secondhand shop, after which I picked up my father's modified tank aerial when he became tired of his brief foray into angling. Then came the Avon and the rest. My friends and I fished round Exeter in the 1960s and my main claim to fame is that in the early 1970s I fished BBs Old Copper Mine courtesy of an acquaintance who had identified it from clues in BB's works and had written to him asking if he had it right. At the time you could simply roll up and ask the owner - I can't remember if any money was involved.
Since joining a club here in Cheshire and going out about half a dozen times, I must say the fish are proving reluctant - apart from one 2" silver chap who hung on just to encourage me!
Another new member
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Richard Jackson
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Welcome to the forum ,enjoy 
I spend most of my life fishing the Rest i just waste
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AshbyCut
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A hearty welcome, Sir.
"Beside the water I discovered (or maybe rediscovered) the quiet. The sort of quiet that allows one to be woven into the tapestry of nature instead of merely standing next to it." Estaban.
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Duebel
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Welcome to the TFF, Oldgreyman!
The fish just haven't noticed your fine tackle yet. It won't be long!
Any chance to see a few pictures of your rods and reels?
The fish just haven't noticed your fine tackle yet. It won't be long!
Any chance to see a few pictures of your rods and reels?
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Greetings from Bamberg
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Mark
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Welcome to the forum.
Mark (Administrator)
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
to the forum, hope you have many enjoyable hrs 
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Julian
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Welcome aboard Oldgreyman.
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings
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SkimmingTheCream
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Welcome to the TFF OGM
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Marc
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Welcome.
Marc. (Prince of Durham)
“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...”
“A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...”