http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle5901886.ece

Thanks for posting Simonm - interesting read if very typically out of date Crabtree-esq, twee, knee jerk stuff that Brian Clarke is good at but sets my teeth on edge.

Reg Wyatt

What a good read, although aimed at people who have yet to discover the joys of flyfishing Brian Clarke's writing is always evocative and informative.

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p.s I like Crabtree too. You have sensitive teeth Reg !!

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Thanks for posting simonm. Interesting.

However, I couldn't help being diverted by this as I got half way down the article...

http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/l...cle5802819.ece

This article doesn't quite live up to it's billing in the link!!!

Don't sugar coat it Reg, call it the way you see it

Incidentally, I had an interesting exchange of views with John Aston on this site a while ago concerning Brian Clarke. I have one or two reservations as well, mainly along the lines that BC is a "journalist who fishes" and sometimes it shows. In contrast, John A wouldn't have a word said against him.

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Well I actually like Crabtree as well but this is 2009 and I think it a shame that some writers tend to always hide behind the "glorious" bygone age of tweeness and all day rising wild brown trout with twenty pound springers coming in on every tide.
We all know that what were silver memories from our past become golden on recollection (read that somewhere!) but this writing is too sickly sweet.

Our rivers are currently under tremendous pressure from over fishing, pollution etc etc and perhaps this needs addressing more so than people in tweed suits writing poetry. Whatever sells newspapers I guess.

In fairness to Brian Clarke I know he does a lot for fishing already so perhaps I'm being unfair to him.

Don't mean to be miserable chaps but let's have a bit more up to date honesty and relevance.

Reg Wyatt

Alternative to the first para:--


It is a cold summer's afternoon. The sun is obviously behind the mist enshrouded hill and the valley is bathed in a curtain of sheeting rain. I am thigh-deep in the river, slowly stumbling upstream, when a movement to my left, a flashing disturbance in the ever darkening sky , teases my water covered bespectacled eyes and is accompanied by a deafening peal of thunder ......time to retreat to the car

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Don't call me "mate" .

The Times... about as likely to offer advice one would wish to act upon regarding 'how to turn women on' as the Beano circa 1982

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http://www.adamhughes.net

Is that the one where Corky the Cat tried it on with Minnie the Minx but she copped off with Billy Whizz instead?

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