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Robin
I'm a life long all round angler and being at ease with my own company I
usually fish alone, although the occasional day out with a freind makes a
nice change. I started off as a child float fishing for small fish and
progressed to legering and slightly bigger fish. Later I discovered carp
and concentrated my efforts on them for the thick end of twenty years with
a bit of barbel and trout thrown in, before eventually ending up doing all
the previous in roughly equal measure with a large chunk of shallow
saltwater sight fishing in the US added for good measure.. This, of course,
is enough for anyone and should keep me off the streets for the duration.
In days of yore I wrote the odd article for Brian Harris's 'Angling'
magazine and then later on for 'Coarse Angler', but it took John Henderson
to recently persuade me to get the typewriter out again...
I'm a lover of nature, of the countryside in general and the waterside in
particular, and surely no vista is complete without water somewhere close
by? I love the wildlife and appreciate how much more one is able to observe
whilst fishing, although this relfects the passive side of angling and
suits only certain times or disciplines. There is another side of the
sport, however, requiring a much more active involvement, where
concentration on the task in hand tends to block out the peripheral senses.
This is the place I really like to be, feeling like a hunter, at one with
the environment, absorbed into the landscape, every sense and nerve on
edge.. Sounds a bit dramatic doesn't it? It's certainly exciting, and it
only comes with an intense desire to catch the quarry, and not if one is
prepared just to sit around enjoying the view and hoping maybe for a bite..
Stalking, or sight fishing as its called in the US, is the obvious way to
experience this rush and in my view is the pinnacle of enjoyment, and
sometimes despair... You see I really like to catch fish, not at any cost,
but suffice to say I don't like blanking. I have never gone along with the
nonsense that suggests that a lost fish or lengthy blank can be made up for
by a kingfisher landing on ones rod, cute as this may be.
So here we are, in between fishing trips, enjoying a fine website and
reading the views and experiences of this diverse group of misfits.....
(Piscators I mean, only joking.)
Quite a nice place to be really..
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