Bobba Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Nostalgia. Found at the back of one of my book cases. It must date from about 1970. It contains interesting lessons from that time eg how to cast with a centre pin reel !! A present from my Dad. So, fond memories as we fished together regularly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samboy Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Remember it well. A pal of mine still has his copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 I had some. They were very good books. Entertaining and educating at the same time. I remember the one advising baiting using maggots in a brown paper bag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 still got mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twenty Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Pop it in the keepnet Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
islandgun Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Loved those books, was there a series, Tench ,Pike etc, well remember snap tackle for pike and a gaff under the chin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehb102 Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 I never saw the books but I saw the TV series based around them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Thought i would come clean and 'fess up to this Crabtree and what an influence he had on me....book is open at page 129.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billytheghillie Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 57 minutes ago, ditchman said: Thought i would come clean and 'fess up to this Crabtree and what an influence he had on me....book is open at page 129.... AAH, but Mr. Crabtree has a 16 compartment Richard Wheatley dry fly box! I still have mine, must be 40+ years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 All Waters is the one I had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 11 minutes ago, enfieldspares said: All Waters is the one I had. i wish i had Bobbas one...............very evocative.............love it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted June 16, 2021 Report Share Posted June 16, 2021 Oh yes, got a few, the 1st edition were a decent price some years ago, mine are wrapped and packed, no idea whats going to happen to them when ive gone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 I have a later edition, my first edition disappeared sometime in my late teens. When I was reading it I was surprised to find out that Mr C was fond of eating some of his catch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 41 minutes ago, henry d said: I have a later edition, my first edition disappeared sometime in my late teens. When I was reading it I was surprised to find out that Mr C was fond of eating some of his catch. Think he mentions that Perch are a fine eating fish..............which they are.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centrepin Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 I think mine is Mr Crabtrees fishing for boys. I also have Angling Times yearbook no 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 what a wonderful way to grow up it was.........cant see any equiverlent now.........'cept young people remenising in 50 years how they fondly remember their first gameboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 17 minutes ago, Centrepin said: ..Mr Crabtrees fishing for boys... You can get 5 years for that! 😜 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 (edited) 9 minutes ago, henry d said: You can get 5 years for that! 😜 looking for a "Gameboy"..............will get you 3 years ...commmunity service ...and a bloody fine if you in the judicery EDIT: Or you would be accepted as an MP all very sad........i will stick to fishing old skool Edited June 17, 2021 by ditchman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 A BOYS ROOM IN THE MID TO LATE 60'S enter room.........hit by the stench of death...(proberly a jam jar with holes in the lid full of worms from the compost heap ..last saturdays fishing trip) one gum boot with the last 1 1/2" turned down cause it looked good.....poster on the wall of Marrianne Faithful on a motorbike.......pull out poster from the radio times of a Vincent 1000cc.........airfix models hanging from the ceiling including a flying fortress with one wheel..(the other one was in yer mums hoover (which was away being fixed unjammed)....crabtree books on the floor next to 30 or 40 1/- war mags ...and etch-a-sketch...and a sprirograph that you nicked from your sisters room..... an old freemans catalouge open at the underwear section and a crispy football sock under the bed...........3 empty packets of Barrets sherbet fountains........a ball of fishing dough...(Rockwell hardness about 147) now useless...covered in blue mouldy stuff............an Ever Ready torch that was leaking some sort of acidic gunk ...set of fishing rods in the corner one with the latest Mitchell 350 flick reel on it............and half a dozen darts stuck in the back of the door and a Diana 177 cal next to the bed with no slugs as you had run out again...and your mum keeps saying "i dont know what you do with them ".....Phaaaa what do women know i wouldnt have swapped all that for the world............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enfieldspares Posted June 17, 2021 Report Share Posted June 17, 2021 10 hours ago, henry d said: You can get 5 years for that! 😜 It didn't take long for the level of conversation to go below the navel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinaryB Posted July 10, 2021 Report Share Posted July 10, 2021 On 17/06/2021 at 09:24, ditchman said: A BOYS ROOM IN THE MID TO LATE 60'S enter room.........hit by the stench of death...(proberly a jam jar with holes in the lid full of worms from the compost heap ..last saturdays fishing trip) one gum boot with the last 1 1/2" turned down cause it looked good.....poster on the wall of Marrianne Faithful on a motorbike.......pull out poster from the radio times of a Vincent 1000cc.........airfix models hanging from the ceiling including a flying fortress with one wheel..(the other one was in yer mums hoover (which was away being fixed unjammed)....crabtree books on the floor next to 30 or 40 1/- war mags ...and etch-a-sketch...and a sprirograph that you nicked from your sisters room..... an old freemans catalouge open at the underwear section and a crispy football sock under the bed...........3 empty packets of Barrets sherbet fountains........a ball of fishing dough...(Rockwell hardness about 147) now useless...covered in blue mouldy stuff............an Ever Ready torch that was leaking some sort of acidic gunk ...set of fishing rods in the corner one with the latest Mitchell 350 flick reel on it............and half a dozen darts stuck in the back of the door and a Diana 177 cal next to the bed with no slugs as you had run out again...and your mum keeps saying "i dont know what you do with them ".....Phaaaa what do women know i wouldnt have swapped all that for the world............. Brilliant Ditchman. Sounds identical to a lad growing up in the seventies too. Same comment from my mum and my Diana .177 ”You haven’t shot all of those already?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robden Posted July 11, 2021 Report Share Posted July 11, 2021 On 17/06/2021 at 09:24, ditchman said: A BOYS ROOM IN THE MID TO LATE 60'S enter room.........hit by the stench of death...(proberly a jam jar with holes in the lid full of worms from the compost heap ..last saturdays fishing trip) one gum boot with the last 1 1/2" turned down cause it looked good.....poster on the wall of Marrianne Faithful on a motorbike.......pull out poster from the radio times of a Vincent 1000cc.........airfix models hanging from the ceiling including a flying fortress with one wheel..(the other one was in yer mums hoover (which was away being fixed unjammed)....crabtree books on the floor next to 30 or 40 1/- war mags ...and etch-a-sketch...and a sprirograph that you nicked from your sisters room..... an old freemans catalouge open at the underwear section and a crispy football sock under the bed...........3 empty packets of Barrets sherbet fountains........a ball of fishing dough...(Rockwell hardness about 147) now useless...covered in blue mouldy stuff............an Ever Ready torch that was leaking some sort of acidic gunk ...set of fishing rods in the corner one with the latest Mitchell 350 flick reel on it............and half a dozen darts stuck in the back of the door and a Diana 177 cal next to the bed with no slugs as you had run out again...and your mum keeps saying "i dont know what you do with them ".....Phaaaa what do women know i wouldnt have swapped all that for the world............. Sounds just like my bedroom used to be, but posher...........I only had a 'Gat'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ditchman Posted July 11, 2021 Report Share Posted July 11, 2021 2 hours ago, Robden said: Sounds just like my bedroom used to be, but posher...........I only had a 'Gat'. never understood the idea of a gat.........a catapult was far better than a gat..........we used to shoot sparrows with catapults ...when they were on the road....we would look for granite pebbles that had loads of cracks in them...so when you shot at you quarry on the road the stone used to shatter and spray the area with fragged stone...very effective.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldypigeonpopper Posted July 11, 2021 Report Share Posted July 11, 2021 On 17/06/2021 at 09:24, ditchman said: A BOYS ROOM IN THE MID TO LATE 60'S enter room.........hit by the stench of death...(proberly a jam jar with holes in the lid full of worms from the compost heap ..last saturdays fishing trip) one gum boot with the last 1 1/2" turned down cause it looked good.....poster on the wall of Marrianne Faithful on a motorbike.......pull out poster from the radio times of a Vincent 1000cc.........airfix models hanging from the ceiling including a flying fortress with one wheel..(the other one was in yer mums hoover (which was away being fixed unjammed)....crabtree books on the floor next to 30 or 40 1/- war mags ...and etch-a-sketch...and a sprirograph that you nicked from your sisters room..... an old freemans catalouge open at the underwear section and a crispy football sock under the bed...........3 empty packets of Barrets sherbet fountains........a ball of fishing dough...(Rockwell hardness about 147) now useless...covered in blue mouldy stuff............an Ever Ready torch that was leaking some sort of acidic gunk ...set of fishing rods in the corner one with the latest Mitchell 350 flick reel on it............and half a dozen darts stuck in the back of the door and a Diana 177 cal next to the bed with no slugs as you had run out again...and your mum keeps saying "i dont know what you do with them ".....Phaaaa what do women know i wouldnt have swapped all that for the world............. Hello, good post Simon 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted July 13, 2021 Report Share Posted July 13, 2021 Mr Crabtree goes Fishing was the book that defined every waking minute of my life up to the age of about 16 when fishing on the river Colne near Watford one Sunday morning a couple of lads came along the side of the river with a Baikal single barrel shotgun. The rest, as they say, is history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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