As a rule I don't generally go in for competitions and I don't generally fish the Test, but hey, what good are rules unless you break them?

On April 24th there is a One Fly competition on the River Test. So ethics to the wind I'm taking part - to write a feature about it, but also to raise funds for The Wild Trout Trust: The WTT is taking the fab idea of Trout in the Classroom, pioneered on the River Wandle, and is working with the association of River Trusts to roll it out to classrooms across the country. As an ex-teacher and now as el presidente of the WTT I'd love to get this brilliant project off to a flying start.

I know we are beset by appeals all the time but please if you have £5 or £50 that you can spare, I'd be more than chuffed if you could take the time make a donation on this page (it's dead easy):

http://www.justgiving.com/wildtrouttrust

As an added incentive (or the booby prize depending on how you look at it!) I'll put all the names of donors into a hat and pick one for a day on a drop-dead fabulous chalk stream, in May if we can arrange it - all wildies and some big fish, picnic, the works. Full guiding services including knot tying, fish spotting etc. I'll even tell you when to strike. Good day guaranteed.

Many thanks.

There's more info on Trout in the Classroom on the donation page.

Sorted.

WCB

Many thanks Toby.

C.

Oh dear, oh dear! Accidental - you've been sucked in! Competition fishing on the 'Holy Grail' of trout waters ..... the Test ()!

So, what's it going to be? Blobs at 20 paces?

Now morally, I accept that this must have been a challenging decision for you, and as a current teacher ( and as an Art Teacher too ) I do extend my condollences to those standards you must have struggled to suppress.

However, I do look forward to the day when I can introduce 'Trout in the Classroom' to my primary charges in Central Milton Keynes. The opportunity to flick a size 18 Pale Watery to a sipping rise in Bletchley or a Large Brook Dun to a feisty, wild brownie in Newport Pagnell is the stuff of dreams.

A donation is winging its way!

Lighthouse


(PS. Forget the day on the 'drop dead gorgeous chalkstream' .... can I just be there on the Test when you fish down and across with a Woolly ******?)

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[I]"I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel."[/I] Roderick L Haig-Brown

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A wooly thing? Moi? How very dare you!

I shall be relying on them rising to my strike indicator and hiding a hook in that too.

Now then, as for Milton Keynes. I'll be chasing d'dig proper brownies not a million miles from there this year ... so don't knock it.

Many thanks for the support.

C.

Job done................good luck......birdsnest

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Fear not if I steal from your side, as of yore, from paradise streams to fish Teifi once more.
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What a good cause . Couldnt not....

Really? Not exactly oozing with clues there are you!

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[I]"I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel."[/I] Roderick L Haig-Brown

[url]www.wildfly.net[/url]

[url]http://www.gameanglinginstructors.co.uk/[/url]

I have had three tries now on Paypal, and it won't go through.
I will try again later.

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"A glint of sun has warmed the air,The flies will soon hatch out, To lure and tempt from their deep lair, The bonnie speckled trout." SKB tackle supporter. I love Furled Leaders.

Sorted, at last.
Please pick me Charles, I have never fished a Chalkstream.

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"A glint of sun has warmed the air,The flies will soon hatch out, To lure and tempt from their deep lair, The bonnie speckled trout." SKB tackle supporter. I love Furled Leaders.