The B.B. Society

[Dave Burr]

I really ought to join as I have loved his writing since 1954. In my 1st year at senior school my form teacher, Mr Bill, used to read from Brendon Chase. The memory some of those passages have stuck with me. One such chapter was about the Honey Buzzard's nest. I recently bought a copy of it and read it for the first time myself 65 years later. It is a good old fashioned boys adventure book and this 'old boy' really enjoyed it. Although I do have a couple of copies of Confessions of a Carp fisher, I have just downloaded it to my newly acquired Kindle, so that will be my next read.

It is no coincidence that my Watermole+ reel was named the 'BB Crucian' and that my perch boat rod currently being crafted bears the moniker 'The BB Perch'.

Bob - That passage about climbing the tree to the honey buzzard nest was, for me, the outstanding piece in an excellent book. It obviously came from a very special memory and I was with him every inch of the way. It brought back memories of my own tree ascending days.

[Liphook]

One of the greatest authors ever in my opinion. He and C.F.Tunnicliffe share a similar throne, for me at least, in illustration. Genius really. The works of 'BB' helped me overcome issues with reading as a child labelled as dyslexic. I owe him a great deal. Any doubters would do well to read the wilfowlers 'twins' of Dark Estuary and Tide's Ending for starters, followed quickly by a main course of all his Bedside books, and a pudding of Confessions. Sublime!

[Jeremy Croxall]

I really ought to join as I have loved his writing since 1954. In my 1st year at senior school my form teacher, Mr Bill, used to read from Brendon Chase. The memory some of those passages have stuck with me. One such chapter was about the Honey Buzzard's nest. I recently bought a copy of it and read it for the first time myself 65 years later. It is a good old fashioned boys adventure book and this 'old boy' really enjoyed it. Although I do have a couple of copies of Confessions of a Carp fisher, I have just downloaded it to my newly acquired Kindle, so that will be my next read.

It is no coincidence that my Watermole+ reel was named the 'BB Crucian' and that my perch boat rod currently being crafted bears the moniker 'The BB Perch'.

Looking forward to the day when we can safely socialise again BB as I haven't seen the BB crucian reel yet and I'd like to have a waggle of your BB perch rod when it arrives. It will be interesting to compare it with my almost completed Wally Wisp which I think will also make a nice perch rod. It will be good on some tight swims on the Derwent where the Wally Wizz is too long to use or where there's risk of damage.
For barbeling I'm looking gorward to using my William's Wonders. So BB here's to you and your new and as yet, un christened kit!
Best regards.
WW

[Santiago]

I read somewhere not so long ago that BB might have been a Russian spy. Does anyone know the story?