The Lure Of The Float
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Mark
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The Lure Of The Float
Last week I started reading one of my Arthur Sharp books 'The Lure Of The Float' for the umpteenth time, an old favourite of mine printed in 1931. I always have to chuckle to myself when I get to chapter 17 'Some Reminiscences' and read the Anglers Prayer. What a great book this is.
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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).
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Re: The Lure Of The Float
It seems a lovely book that Mark.
I have that very same prayer on a card in my Den too. My wife thought it funny and bought it for me to put up on my wall.
I have that very same prayer on a card in my Den too. My wife thought it funny and bought it for me to put up on my wall.
God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.
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Re: The Lure Of The Float
Does sound a good read , I do like the poem ,very apt especially me .
Knowledge comes but Wisdom lingers
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I've not read it, but must go and search out a copy looks like a nice read.Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
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Mark
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Re: The Lure Of The Float
Yet another great chapter, the more times I read this book the more I get lost in it, not bad for an 83 year old book, well done Arthur.
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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).
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Re: The Lure Of The Float
Yes in chapter III Leigh, 'Angling Wiles And Wisdom'.Leigh wrote:I did own a copy of the book some years ago, thank you for sharing the Anglers Prayer. If I recall there is a section that covers when the wind blows west the fish bite best? And yes a book that is 83 years old can still have an impact on our angling emotions today.
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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).