Letters from Essex: The Third of a Few…
3.11.1997 04.10am
Dear ******
I'm at Henry's [Fords] after Sunday's debacle. You should have read by now of Saturday's trip down to ******
Rod Sturdy: Trev the Bailiff.
In the claustrophobic atmosphere of twenty-first century Britain, certain people are a breath of fresh air. They are an excellent antidote to the current climate of political correctness and our modern morbid fixation with health and safety.
Letters from Essex: the second of a few…
1.11.97 Saturday evening
Dear *****
I've just got in, had me dinner and got sat down. It's 8.30 as I write and for once we ain't going out tonight, which I ain't sorry about cos I'm knackered after a gutful of ale and sloe gin last night, and an early start to go down to ****** on The Doctor's trout reservoir.
Roll on June the 16th – reflections on barbel angling
TF Gear and Fishtec online marketing manager Ceri Thomas talks about his new-found favourite river fish - the hard fighting barbel!
We've All Been There!
...haven't we? Probably more than once, but we never learned our lesson!
Letters from Essex: The First of a Few.
Dear *****
Thanks very much for your letter which I got last week. I really did enjoy it. I've read it at least a dozen times!
Every Picture Tells a Story – Graham Elliott: ‘Kismet’
Graham Elliott's directions were spot-on. I swung a left off the main road to Ross and there were the first of my landmarks - a pub and a church. Further on I noticed the village school, then the Bed & Breakfast followed by a rustic sign for his turning.
May 2016 Laguna Baits Caption Competition – one day early!
Well...there'd been no fresh April entries for days on end so we thought we'd get another ball rolling straight away. This month we feature a somewhat bizarre scene! What do you make of it? Give it as many shots as you like and, in a month's time, you could be in receipt of some gen-u-ine Laguna Bait kindly donated by ...Laguna Baits!
Eddie Benham: My First Car
I bought my first car from a mate of mine around 1962 when I was a young man aged 20 years old. It cost me the grand sum of £15 and I had to buy a car battery for it that cost me another 'fiver', so for £20 I was on the road and new horizons now lay ahead to be explored.
Every Picture Tells A Story: Maggi's Monster
One wall of Geoff Maynard's office is adorned by a dozen or so framed photographs of specimen fish and their captors: there are carp, pike, catfish, tench, barbel.but the one that never fails to draw me in is the sturgeon lying across the arms of Geoff and his wonderful wife, Maggi, who caught it.
