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Cane
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Hello,
I've just joined the forum. I blame my grandfather. He bought me a split cane rod in 1955, before I was born! He had to wait a few years then started me off with a bucket of water in the garden and the instruction to cast a weight into it from increasing distances. Eventually, he took me to a variety of ponds and rivers around Sussex, where I finally managed to catch my first fish (I think it was probably a Dace). moving on several decades, I came back to cane rods and spent 10 years with a chapman 500 teamed with a 1949 Mitchell. More recently (thanks to the encouragement of a fellow fishing nut), I've developed a passion for trying all sorts of reels and rods. The most difficult being a Victorian salmon rod teamed with a wooden reel and used for carp fishing. I have nothing but respect for those Victorians! Anyway, thanks for having me on the forum. I look forward to learning lots more about traditional fishing in the near future.
CANE :fishing1:
In the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings!
Mrs Wigg's philosophy

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Bobthefloat
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Post by Bobthefloat »

Welcome to the forum Cane :Hat:

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Barbulus
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Welcome indeed to the TFF ....... a little retreat in amongst the "Chaos" out there

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Keston
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Welcome Cane , do you still have that 1949 Mitchell ?

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Fred
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Welcome Sir :Hat:
Fish come and go, but it is the memory of afternoons on the stream that endure

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Lea Dweller
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Welcome to the TFF! :Hat:
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall!
Confucius

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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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Luga00
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Great to have you here, Cane - Welcome!

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Duckett
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Welcome to the friendliest and most helpful forum I know.
From "... the wilds of the Wirral, whose wayward people both God and good men have quite given up on ...".

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Duebel
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Post by Duebel »

Welcome to the TFF, Cane!
Greetings from Bamberg
Martin

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