Hello from Deepest Norfolk
Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 3:39 pm
Hello folks,
I joined last night after a long time of reading the forum posts, fascinated by the wealth of knowledge that the members have-decided it was time to take the plunge!
I started fishing at the age of 8 when my parents upped sticks from the East End of London and moved to a sleepy village near Cromer in Norfolk. My first ever trip Dad took me fishing to a small stream near Blickling where we caught a couple of Brownies-years later I discovered that we had been poaching! I have subsequently visited the same spot and it is as idyllic as I had remembered all those years before.
Through the years many of my fishing mates have joined the 'fishing arms race' and i noticed that most had lost a lot of the passion for fishing, I think, because of this. Being a bit of a Luddite at heart and have a passion for all things old I decided that I would go against the flow and revert back to proper fishing. I have been fly fishing with an Allcocks Princess (I think) for a few years now and have just brought a Sealey Octofloat to restore over the winter that will hopefully be my go-to rod for the following seasons.
Being a mechanical engineer by trade I do enjoy the challenge of buying basket cases/ barn finds and restoring with a view to using them as it gives such a sense of achievement- a bit like catching your first wild trout on a home made fly.
Tight lines.
Ian.
I joined last night after a long time of reading the forum posts, fascinated by the wealth of knowledge that the members have-decided it was time to take the plunge!
I started fishing at the age of 8 when my parents upped sticks from the East End of London and moved to a sleepy village near Cromer in Norfolk. My first ever trip Dad took me fishing to a small stream near Blickling where we caught a couple of Brownies-years later I discovered that we had been poaching! I have subsequently visited the same spot and it is as idyllic as I had remembered all those years before.
Through the years many of my fishing mates have joined the 'fishing arms race' and i noticed that most had lost a lot of the passion for fishing, I think, because of this. Being a bit of a Luddite at heart and have a passion for all things old I decided that I would go against the flow and revert back to proper fishing. I have been fly fishing with an Allcocks Princess (I think) for a few years now and have just brought a Sealey Octofloat to restore over the winter that will hopefully be my go-to rod for the following seasons.
Being a mechanical engineer by trade I do enjoy the challenge of buying basket cases/ barn finds and restoring with a view to using them as it gives such a sense of achievement- a bit like catching your first wild trout on a home made fly.
Tight lines.
Ian.
