Crabtree Catches: Mark Wyatt’s Story
I haven’t been fishing since I was a teenager in the early 70s, unless you count a couple of hours on a Finnish lake last summer. Your programme has re-inspired me, at the age of 53, to get fishing again!
I was very lucky as a kid, I lived in the beautiful Tillingbourne Valley in Surrey, the Tillingbourne and miles of lovely countryside were just behind our home, and my next door neighbour, a lovely old man called Jack, was the top dog in the local Angling Society. Jack taught me so much back then and even gave me loads of equipment to get me started, including a sea fishing fibre glass rod, which I used on the Tillingbourne. I still have the rod and would never sell it. Jack also gave me some beautiful identification cards, and to this day I can recognise most fresh water fish by sight, despite other interests taking over from the fishing years ago. […]
My Crabtree Catch: Jack Potter (aged 6)
Why was this a Crabtree catch? I was fishing with my Daddy.
Species: Roach
Weight: Awesome
My Crabtree Catch: Jack Youlden (aged 12)
Why was this a Crabtree catch? Its my biggest fish, and it was caught on […]
My Crabtree Catch: Alex Collins (aged 15)
Why was this a Crabtree catch? In the first 30minutes of being at Farlows, I […]
My Crabtree Catch: Gabriel Collins (aged 8)
Why was this a Crabtree catch? I was on my third fishing lesson but first […]