I like your style Peter, Bernard Venables certainly did more than most in encouraging youngsters into fishing. I was a member of the Kingfisher Guild that he began when he was at the Angling Times, he certainly entertained me when I began a lifelong love of fishing that began in the early 1950''s.
Great share, Peter! I still have a very tattered copy of this book from childhood, it may be a later revision as they have a session with a "threadline"reel spinning for perch and chub. He also uses a multiplier for a pike plugging session ("new lures from the USA") but otherwise its a "flick em" centre pin, even for long range carp fishing! As a small boy it was my anglers bible, although i was very frustrated at not having a "Hampshire Avon type river" nearby ! I felt a bit sorry for poor old Peter having to wear shorts through the cold winter sessions ! Nowadays its grown men with big beards and reversed baseball caps found doing that 😂. You ought to try a light bomb and breadflake for chub on that river of yours 👍
That's good advice I will try that. My copy is the tenth edition 1962 and no fixed spools, no wonder I am still behind the times! Thank you for your comment.
I still have my copy I received when I was young (in my 60’s now) and still enjoy reading it. Lucky enough to go to the Bernard Venables exhibition that they had at Salisbury Museum quite a few years ago, which again was very interesting.
Think I still have my copy of that fabulous book in the loft along with the one they did on sea fishing, read them so my times use to tackle my rod up and fish off my bed and make out I was on the river bank fishing in the 1950s great memories. Keep up the videos.!!
I haven't read Mr Crabtree for some years, but I definitely remember a fixed spool reel being in it, possibly an Ambidex. They were probably called threadline or spinning reels, back then. If I recall correctly Bernard Venables, through the words of Mr Crabtree, said fixed spool reels made angling too easy and were a weapon in the wrong hands, or something of that sort.
Better luck next time. Yes I bit of DW squirt on the bale-arm spring should do. Most of my reels need to be helped in use - nothing odd there. I may still have a copy of Crabtree's and remember it well from my dad and it certainly inspired me. Loving nature and all
A very enjoyable video - thank you! I, too, have some favorite fishing books from my youth. Treasured items now, as are the two Mitchell spinning reels I purchased back in the early 1960’s. They have aged quite a bit better than their owner!
