Kevin wrote:Nothing in this months Carp magazine is taking a short view on the most influential angler of the twentieth century.
Some one else may well have invented the bomb and the bite alarm,but they didn't,he did.
Anglers are still catching on his May fly nymph,fly patterns good ones tend to stick around for?,well some of the patterns in 'Waltons book are still relevant.
No axe to grind here, but so far nothing to firm up your opinion that nobody will have heard of Richard Walker in twenty years.
Exactly, it is just an opinion, and I saw a pack of Arlsey Bombs too at the outdoor shop today. As regards the mayfly nymph, Skues advised on a pattern, and many seem to have dabbled with it. Walker in his inimitable way created gills via the use of fluffed out mohair, but then if memory serves regarded the fly as highly effective even where mayfly aren't found. How praiseworthy and inventive tying a size ten leaded longshank with a cream mohair body is beyond my remit? I doubt that fly alone will keep the legend, but other things might, of course, and I couldn't possibly evidence an opinion of a world twenty years hence, other than to wish everybody's realisation of their dreams.
Finally the term "short view"was used in a way that suggests that I applied it to Walker. Of course I did no such thing, I simply said that I took a "short" view of the second hand tackle market over a twenty year cycle, in that I expect prices to fall. This is just an opinion, but in its support I query how much reverence the current pieces will attract. I can't really see a demograph for the future market.