Lovely surprise
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Lovely surprise
There I was sorting out a bucket of lobworms for a forthcoming trip when who should be walking up the drive but Dave Burr ! But what is more, he was clutching two superb homemade slider floats just for me. They are embossed with Troydog ‘21
Dave reckons they’ll take six swan, so that is perfect for the Wye with some water on.
What a very kind gesture - thank you Dave…..
Dave reckons they’ll take six swan, so that is perfect for the Wye with some water on.
What a very kind gesture - thank you Dave…..
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
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Re: Lovely surprise
They look ideal Tim Well made and gifted Dave 8g olivette and a couple of droppers perhaps?
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Re: Lovely surprise
Very nice looking floats, a lovely gift.
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Great floats and an excellent choice of book as backdrop. I lost count of the number of times I borrowed it from Swansea library. I particularly liked the chapter where Dick attempted to dispel the notion that he caught lots of specimen fish on each and every outing. I seem to recall him recounting a visit to a canal where he caught very little and got a boot full of water trying to submerge his keep net!
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A marvellous gesture - and very nice floats too. Well done both
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You shouldn't put photo's of my floats on here Tim, it just underlines how awful my painting is
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Dave, those floats are wonderful and they will catch fish!!
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
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I love the roach fishing where he captures several two pounders and then says that there is not an angler alive that could not do the same!!
I remember thinking, when I first read it, that there isn’t an angler alive that could’ve caught those roach - EXCEPT DICK WALKER. …….
I remember thinking, when I first read it, that there isn’t an angler alive that could’ve caught those roach - EXCEPT DICK WALKER. …….
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
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I'm not sure if it was in that book but I recall Dick extolling the effectiveness of freshwater shrimps as bait for specimen Roach. Before we became anglers my pal and I used to haunt a tiny Spring fed pond that abounded in all manner of aquatic life from bloodworm through ephemera and dragonfly nymphs up to newts and huge leeches. A shallow gravelly rivulet exited the pond and here there was Gammarus aplenty. With the literalness of youth we gathered some fine examples and fully expected to catch big Roach from our two home waters, one never ever produced a Roach of more than a pound; the other didn't hold Roach at all!Troydog wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 7:07 pm I love the roach fishing where he captures several two pounders and then says that there is not an angler alive that could not do the same!!
I remember thinking, when I first read it, that there isn’t an angler alive that could’ve caught those roach - EXCEPT DICK WALKER. …….
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They are lovely floats Dave.
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