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John Bickerdyke and the Nottingham
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 3:15 pm
by Stingray
Found this in the 1895 John Bickerdyke book, Sea Fishing. I found his comments about
his invention the
line guard particularly interesting. The book is available for download here -
https://archive.org/details/seafishing00bickrich.
Nottingham reel extract.jpg
Re: John Bickerdyke and the Nottingham
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2015 6:03 pm
by Chavender
one of the top anglers of his day Mr bickerdyke and very clever man .He has a excellent pike fishing book and a coarse fishing book .theres lots of good stuff in them theres descriptions of practices that's been forgotten & reinvented as modern techniques .