Hello everyone,Jardine wrote: ↑Fri Jan 20, 2017 2:32 pm A couple of weeks ago my wife handed me an envelope and said" you asked me to keep these for you". I looked at the brown envelope
" it was years ago" she continued. We had been clearing our old house and had been packing for days.
Inside the envelope were various fishing photos of me in the seventies and some black and white ones from the 80's.
I was quite excited as I hadn't seen these in years and put them on my desk, a few days later I went through them.
My memory is poor (and my fishing diaries are in London and I'm in Thailand) but I think that the following photos were taken in the early eighties on a small Sussex carp pool when I was fishing with my old friend Chris Yates. Chris Ball, a friend of CY whom I'd met on a few occasions was also there.
The first photo shows a posed photo of the two anglers with cane rods.I think that the rod that Chris Ball is holding could be the famous MK IV that landed Clarissa.I think that he had brought it down to show CY. I have seen the rod in real life and CY showed it to me before he took it back to Redmire to catch the carp in "A Passion For Angling". There are also a couple of pics of the carp that were caught that day.
Best regards
Mem
I vaguely remember Mem taking photos on that day (it was on Walker’s anniversary of the capture of Clarissa) around 1984. Chris had fished the previous night with both Walker’s MkIV No 1(Clarissa rod) which I’d lent him and his own Walker built MkIV Avon (Bishop rod). I arrived early the following morning to find Chris still half asleep. He wound both rods in and I noticed that MkIV No 1 had the main line going round the rod at the ferrule and pointed this out to Chris. “Ah... I wondered what was up, I thought the rod had lost its magic as I couldn’t seem to cast very far.”
The picture of Chris and myself holding both rods can I see cause some confusion because for some reason Chris put his Ambidex (the Bishop record reel which he purchased in 1969) on the Walker’s MkIV No 1 and a Delmatic on his own Walker MkIV Avon built rod.
Later in the morning Chris took a nice picture of me landing a carp - it later appeared in the The Haig Whisky Guide to Coarse Fishing in Britian book published in 1985.