Hello From Dom, in Oxfordshire.

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Dom Andrew
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Hello From Dom, in Oxfordshire.

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Hi everyone. I’ve been here a few weeks now, and decided to introduce myself while adding an avatar.
I hope my avatar is not transgressing any copyright. As you can see it is the perches watercolour from 'Mr. Crabtree Goes Fishing'. I’m surprised no one else has beaten me to it using that picture.

Like many on here, I took up fishing in my preteen years in the 1960's, just when cane was being superseded by fibreglass.
Back then, in the early 60's, a friend of mine persuaded me to go fishing with him. I wasn’t at all keen, imagining that fishing was a boring, cold, wet, and slimy sport. It didn’t appeal to me at all, but I didn’t fancy the idea of spending the day on my own, putting together an Airfix model, so reluctantly I joined him in an unused field along the Thames in Berkshire.
My friend had lent me a tatty cane rod. It wasn’t long, well almost straight away, that my goose quill float went under. The excitement of seeing the float go under, and wondering what was tugging at my float down there unseen in the mysterious water, was pretty powerful stuff for a young boy. I had hooked my first fish, a perch – and I was hooked too; hence my avatar of perches.

Adulthood took me away from fishing, and it is only recently, a few years ago, that I have taken it up again.
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Welcome back on the path Dom :Hat:

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Welcome to the TFF Dom :Hat:

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Hello Dom and welcome :fishing1:
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Welcome Dom, from the banks of the Thames on a drizzly day in Oxfordshire, possibly somewhere near yourself. Sadly, the Thames doesn't fish so well these days.
"....he felt the gentle touch on the line and he was happy"

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Welcome to the TFF.
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Welcome to the TFF, Dom!

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:welcome: to the forum :Hat:
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Welcome to the forum Dom.
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Welcome aboard from another Oxfordshire (North) piscator. :Hat:
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