Over the years when writing about angling, I’ve always been a firm believer of doing so only during the periods that I’m actively involved and taking part in my fishing. With this I feel that I’m always in a position to actually make a valuable contribution to what’s happening on the ground, or should I say ‘in the water’.
A thought this week comes to mind over how some people, particularly youngsters, see the importance of taking a few notes of their fishing exploits. Many have found a huge benefit taking notes of catches, locations and of course a tactical approach used in their day and as I always say, ‘every day’s a school day’.
This came to light when listening to youngsters looking back and discussing their tactics for a forthcoming ‘adventure’ during the half term break. Tactically, there were admittedly some questions that needed to be answered within the information that had been recorded and was shared that day, but the depth of what had been recorded in a note book expressed a passion that brought back memories.
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For me, writing and keeping records of venues and catches was once a priority and so important on the scale of the match fishing scene I was competing upon. Today, admittedly not keeping logs as such, but relying mainly on my blogs and looking at my fellow anglers’ similar contributions upon social media platforms, my writing today is merely a hobby and purely therapeutic.
My advice, however, to my young friends that day, even though I’m still not practicing it myself, is to keep records and hope, like mine did for many years, that they will also pay some dividends when helping to get the best out of a peg one day. On the bank itself and
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