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Gareth Fareham
ISSUE 2 ARCHIVES - AURORA BOREALIS - JON SKOLD

ISSUE 2 ARCHIVES - AURORA BOREALIS - JON SKOLD

The only way to try to get through it all, is by recollecting all the precious moments you've experienced throughout the season, maybe from years gone by, all over again inside your head, and at some point it is about also imagining what lies ahead. Maybe with the help of photos, but they are just tools of aid, you must actually feel those mild and fresh mornings inside you, where that left hand rod suddenly curled around, and the bite alarm melted away in the misty morning sun, as if it would never cease. You get into some sort of...

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Gareth Fareham
ISSUE 2 ARCHIVES - ONE FOR THE ROAD - SIMON CROFT

ISSUE 2 ARCHIVES - ONE FOR THE ROAD - SIMON CROFT

Just one last brew; a quick cuppa and a catch up with Shaun, and a last farewell - so long and thanks for all the fish! It was the end of that journey, that particular angling chapter of my life. Friends had led me there, friendships had been forged there, fish had even been caught there, a pleasant and refreshing bonus. There were still plenty on ‘the list’, plenty I would have cut my right arm off for, but you can’t win them all. Circumstance, or fate, had conspired to take me from that little pocket of Berkshire dreams. I’d...

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Gareth Fareham
ISSUE 3 ARCHIVES - THE ROAD TO PORTMANTEAU - JAKE DAVOILE

ISSUE 3 ARCHIVES - THE ROAD TO PORTMANTEAU - JAKE DAVOILE

He may be a master of the ‘pig-skins’, but my old man is by no means a master of angling, in fact he’s crap, and I had no desire to emulate Buddy Rich, as it was his counterpart, Chris Yates, who captured my imagination. My dad did take me fishing though, and I can vividly remember the first trip, stopping to get sweets from a sweet shop called ’Lanes Tackle Shop’. He returned and passed me a brown paper bag, stuffed to the brim, and bizarrely taped shut at the top. I sat patiently and it must have been a...

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Gareth Fareham
ISSUE 2 ARCHIVES - THE EDGE OF PLACES - MATT BEDDOWS

ISSUE 2 ARCHIVES - THE EDGE OF PLACES - MATT BEDDOWS

Author's note; the piece you are about to read (or skip over) does not contain any of the following words or descriptive phrases - pukka, keeping it real, looking out across the pond, to say I was over the moon is an understatement, a rare visitor to the bank, tricky low-stocked venue, rock-hard venue, target venue, target fish, proper old English carp, a nice dark scaly one, and most words beginning with 'K'. There are also no angling techniques described herein; no reversed chod aligners or spangled armadillo blow-back rigs. No 'edges' and no toy boats. Suffice to say all...

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