Forget all those valentines shenanigans, wives and girlfriends (or both if you’re that unlucky) can wait.... raise a toast to the great Bernard Venables who would have been 113 today!
Cheers Bernard
" Angling is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it..."
“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers,” Herbert Hoover.
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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).
I was sadly never privileged to meet the great man but I often think of him when I’m down on the Romney Marsh where he spent his formative years and discovered the delights of angling as a young boy....
" Angling is not an escape from life, but often a deeper immersion into it..."
I never met him either RBT but his description of perch fishing on the Wye, page 95, was the inspiration for my visit to Hereford in 1978. I am delighted to report that Mr Crabtree's findings in the 1950's are still valid today.....
Trouble is, the fish just don't read the books......
John Harding