Browsing through some of my books I noticed this piece of
angling history. I have kept an angling diary
over the years and this is one of the pages from 1968. It shows my first holiday away after fish
when I travelled to Scotland with my brother and fished on Lochmaben for bream
and the River Annan for chub. We did not
catch the chub but we did have some bream which may have led to my lifelong love of
them.
On the chub fishing comments it is worth the notice of the times
fished, along with my then angling companion we fished every Friday night through to the following day and did this throughout the winter, we were hard men then!
The chub sizes mentioned reflects the difference in what is available
now compared to those days, a 3lb plus chub was marked in red.
Last but not least is the small cutting out of the local
Telegraph newspaper detailing the capture of the 4lb-8oz chub, a very big fish
then, this was the first mention by name of my exploits, little did I realise
how much of my life fishing would devour.
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