Here's an experiment I'd like to see done again.
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=46788
Jack Hargreaves
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Jack Hargreaves
“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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Re: Jack Hargreaves
It would probably be banned on health and safety grounds. I can only imagine the devastation if a carbon rod broke under that sort of strain :shock:
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Re: Jack Hargreaves
I think on our next meet-up Mark should try to 'catch' SK on a MKIV and Mitchell 300. :hahaha:
Walker said that he was able to stop a springer spaniel with a MKIV even when someone was calling it at the other end of the garden!
Walker said that he was able to stop a springer spaniel with a MKIV even when someone was calling it at the other end of the garden!
“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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Re: Jack Hargreaves
Snape wrote:I think on our next meet-up Mark should try to 'catch' SK on a MKIV and Mitchell 300. :hahaha:
Walker said that he was able to stop a springer spaniel with a MKIV even when someone was calling it at the other end of the garden!
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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).
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).
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Re: Jack Hargreaves
Better HD version on youtube
http://youtu.be/Nddujh736KE?hd=1
http://youtu.be/Nddujh736KE?hd=1
“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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Re: Jack Hargreaves
There a lesson there about going fishing with a 50 year old green heart rod. :lol:
“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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Re: Jack Hargreaves
Raven Cottage, south of Sturminster Newton is where Jack H lived after moving from the New Forest.
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Re: Jack Hargreaves
Lovely Place that!! :thumb:
SK
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The Compleat Tangler
“Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards to see outwards. And capture it in writing.”
Nigel 'Fennel' Hudson
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Re: Jack Hargreaves
From memory, not that good these days....there was a nice looking stretch of the Stour near Sturminster. Lovely house.
Old car owners never die....they just rust away