Davy North is our latest Contributor of the Month winner for his heart-warming piece about nostalgia and an old float that was more than just a memory.
An extract from ‘Looking Back On Nostalgia’ reads:
“So what is so special about this float? Well nothing really. In fact we found it in the grass by some local ponds when Middlesbrough AC took them over in the early 70’s. Even thirty years ago this float was obviously a product of a different generation. It would have been no more than four inches long, and made of, I suppose balsa. However it was so heavily painted, and varnished that 2BB would have sunk it. Lime green in colour, with only the top quarter of an inch orange blaze, and a thick black band dividing the two colours. The top was flattened off, while the bottom tapered away like a traditional stick float. Screwed into the bottom was an unsightly ring whose rusty nature gave away the float’s age. But in those far off formative years when the choice of float depended more on what you fancied using, rather than what it was actually meant to do, this was our lucky float, and we’d take turns using it.”
Click on the link below to read it in full.
Davy wins a one-man dome bivvie from Relum.
FISHINGmagic gives a bulk spoolof top quality Sufix Synergy line worth about £20 to every majorcontributor, and every major contributor is in with a chance ofwinning the Contributor of the Month prize, worth over £100. Ifyou want to contribute a feature, news item or review to FISHINGmagicsend them to me at graham@fishingmagic.com
