Some Possessions Stay With Us Down The Years Even When They Aren't Active

Article Written By: Claire Porter

When you ponder how many bits and pieces come and go in your life in terms of things acquired, collected and later binned, it's amazing that I've still got my fishing tackle more or less intact. I haven't not needed it in a lot of years and lots of house moves, but it's still here. What's even more strange is that one of my fishing rods is the 1st one that I was given when I was a young boy of about eight.

My uncle was, and still is, a very fanatical maggot drowner and even in those days had tons of fishing tackle that he just kept buying even though most of it was duplicated, and he gave me one of his fishing rods. It is a 10 foot fibre glass model, in brown and has a marvellous comfortable cork handle with sliding holders for attaching the reel.

I only actually have 2 fishing rods, which I understand is fairly rubbish when real tackle danglers will have a minimum of half a dozen in their bag at any given time, the other is a super lightweight carbon fibre item I got when I went to Christchurch for a maggot drowning weekend break for the first time.

Even some of my other fishing tackle goes back to that 1st ever adventure with my old man and uncle to a gravel pit near St Albans. I remember very little of course, except that I caught a double of Roach (may have been Rudd) and that I was wearing my first ever parka coat which was green and had a grey furry lining to the hood. Isn't it amazing, the bits that stick in the memory?

Since I'm planning a come back to the waterside in the very near future I'm going to have to update and replace most of my fishing tackle. I'm not expecting to want any new fishing rods but I have to pay close attention to things like hooks, line and particularly nets as I know that things have changed on and the stuff I've got is mostly outlawed now. In fact I know my landing and keep nets are, though a squirrel wrecked my landing net when I caught it. I wasn't being cruel, it had fallen from a tree and was jumping around my back garden dragging it's broken back legs behind it and I had to get it for the RSPCA man who came to collect it.

I was having to consider which of the fishing tackle shops in the area I was going to go to, and then quite by coincidence I was using the iPhone app AroundMe which located one about 200 yards from my house, so that settled that issue. At least I hope it is a shop as the address is an industrial estate and it might just be that it's a warehouse for an online fishing tackle shop. Never mind, the fun will be in the finding out.

So when I do have all my new, up to date and legal fishing tackle worked out, I hope it stays with me as long as the old stuff, and indeed that my lad will find a use for it when the time comes for me to take him out and show him how to catch a fish.

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