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Last Edition I mentioned the advent of the fixed spool reel and completely forgot to mention the multiplier type reel which arrived in this country from US A late in 1938',although if memory serves me right it was used by Scandinavians for casting lures. I do not recall them being used by sea anglers because they would have been too light to handle anything above a few pounds in weight.

I also forget to mention that Isaac Walton's baits had a revival - a modest one-
when carp anglers discovered that the Old Master's bread and honey bait actually worked tried it myself a couple of years ago, more as a leg pull for the local experts than a hope of landing a fish. It worked again I landed a five pound carp which took a quarter inch cube of bread smeared with honey.

Dear old Jack Hargreaves set out to catch as many species as he could using methods mentioned in the Compleat Angler, when he was fronting the OUT OF TOWN programme for ITV. I'm not sure how far he succeeded but I do remember him speaking of taking a chub on a cherry I suppose that the modern pole fishing is really an extension of the technique used by Walton and his companions, so why shouldn't the old baits still work?

Of course, that assumes that fishing will still be available and fish stocks are maintained at reasonable levels. Having heard that Dungeness was being turned into a National Park with serious restrictions on parking spaces for anglers. I made inquiries up and down the country and learned that the Environmental Agency consults every organisation with an interest in using the countryside and seashore. Every section of the community, in fact ;except anglers.

I also learned that anglers who complain about this lack of opportunity to state their case are told,"but we didn't know who could speak for anglers. I have expressed myself forcefully in another place and have raised a few hackles amongst the 'Life is too good for humans' brigade. I don't want to start a revolution, but I think it should be made clear to ministers and others in the various tiers of government that anglers for a considerable piece of the electorate and taxpayers.

I hope that those at the head of organisations administering the sport should stop
taking the mushroom treatment and speak out loud for angling.
(For those of tender years who know not the mushroom system it is "Keep them in the dark as long as possible and shower them with fertiliser from time to time)