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- Odney
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New member
Hello . I've just been accepted to join the forum so thought I'd introduce myself.
I'm 50 years old , live in east Berkshire and been fishing since a small boy. My dad took me to a small stream off the Thames in cookham known as The Odney where armed with a length of garden cane that my dad had whipped some eyes on spent hours catching minnows , bleak and if lucky the odd gudgeon . My dad had an old split cane rod that he'd been given and we spent hours bonding on that small river every weekend .
I fished through most of my youth but other things got in the way during my teenage years and was late 20s when I returned to a sport that I hardly recognised .
Boilies , bolt hair rigs and Optonics had taken over from maggots, floats and size 16 hooks and although I did buy into the modern way for a few years and caught some descent fish I knew it was cheating ,like teeing a golf ball up on the fairway to get your best round of golf .
For the last ten years I have fished with a etiquette I set myself meaning bait must natural or easily bought from supermarket, always on a baited hook but most importantly the hook must be set in to the fish using my own skill not some bolt rig
As for my tackle I fish with a very humble Allcock record breaker centre pin , free line , maybe the odd swan shot, or under a quill. As for my rod I've just recovered an old Constable of Bromley cane that I plan to use on my next trip . It needed a little TLC but it's my dad's old rod and so the memory and feel of where it all began will be relived on every cast
Tight lines looking forward to getting to know you all
Odney
I'm 50 years old , live in east Berkshire and been fishing since a small boy. My dad took me to a small stream off the Thames in cookham known as The Odney where armed with a length of garden cane that my dad had whipped some eyes on spent hours catching minnows , bleak and if lucky the odd gudgeon . My dad had an old split cane rod that he'd been given and we spent hours bonding on that small river every weekend .
I fished through most of my youth but other things got in the way during my teenage years and was late 20s when I returned to a sport that I hardly recognised .
Boilies , bolt hair rigs and Optonics had taken over from maggots, floats and size 16 hooks and although I did buy into the modern way for a few years and caught some descent fish I knew it was cheating ,like teeing a golf ball up on the fairway to get your best round of golf .
For the last ten years I have fished with a etiquette I set myself meaning bait must natural or easily bought from supermarket, always on a baited hook but most importantly the hook must be set in to the fish using my own skill not some bolt rig
As for my tackle I fish with a very humble Allcock record breaker centre pin , free line , maybe the odd swan shot, or under a quill. As for my rod I've just recovered an old Constable of Bromley cane that I plan to use on my next trip . It needed a little TLC but it's my dad's old rod and so the memory and feel of where it all began will be relived on every cast
Tight lines looking forward to getting to know you all
Odney
- Shed_Monkey
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Re: New member
Welcome to the forum Odney - good to have you on board.
Cheers
Steve
Cheers
Steve
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Re: New member
Sounds like you've come home. A hearty welcome, Sir.
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Re: New member
Welcome, I know that we have a few members that live in other parts of Berkshire, so you have company!
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Re: New member
Welcome to the forum Odney.
Mark (Administrator)
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
- Hovis
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Re: New member
Welcome Sir. You'll like it here.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
Izaak Walton
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Re: New member
Welcome, I think you have come to the right place.
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Re: New member
Welcome to the forum Odney. Have fun!
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Re: New member
Welcome aboard Odney.
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Re: New member
Welcome to the TFF Odney