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n a p a r t of the country where the casting of a fly-line across flowing water is


almost a religion, I have to confess I am a


heathen. I am one of those con­


temptible anglers who huffs and puffs up the bankside with a small arsenal of assorted rods, reels, boxes, nets, floats, weights and so on and, most sinful of all, bait which wriggles. Much to my fiancee’s dis­


pleasure our fridge is often a temporary home to thou­ sands of maggots writhing around in the confines of my bait box. After all, would you want to eat unfresh maggots? In short, I am what is known as a coarse fisherman, some would say a very coarse fisherman, especially after hearing my language by the bankside when I have got into my 15th tangle in so many casts. One thing all fishermen


love to do as much as fish­ ing is to talk about fishing, preferably in a fishing tack­ le shop. I am no exception and one afternoon, recent­ ly, I was in Ken Varey’s Outdoor World Shop in Clitheroe, rabbiting on about the merits of game fishing (salmon, trout and grayling) as compared to coarse fishing (anything that swims and has gills) with the shop's resident fly­ fishing expert, John Legg. When he suggested that I accompany him on a fly- session on the Ribble, I rose for the bait like a hungry sea-trout on a May-fly feeding frenzy. So, on one warm and


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CLITHEROE fly-fishing enthusiast John Legg in his sporting ele­ ment on the RivcrRibble (180598/17/5) and, left, one of the beautiful brown trout he caught from the river (180598/17/3)


breezy evening, we were on our way to a stretch of the Ribble not a million miles away controlled by Rib- blesdale Anglers’ Associa­ tion, of which John is a member. He looks the part in his


waders and fishing jacket. We creep down to the


river staying back from the water's edge as John tack­


les up. Big fly-hatches in the


evening switch the trout on, John explains, however, on evenings like this with direct sunlight on the sur- fac, the trout will stay lower in the water. So rather than fishing classic dry-fly style, John decides to use "wet-flies," which tumble along inches beneath the surface. Now comes the compli­


of his jacket, which con­ tains a myriad of multi­ coloured lures in different shapes and sizes, all tied by his own nimble fingers. "My maxim is: 'match the hatch'," says John, "but there are so many types of flies and insects, you would have to be an entomologist to know them all.” An ento­ mologist, I am told , is an insect expertl John decides to use a tiny "pale-olive fly" and a "hare's ear nymph" on a "dropper" - a small trace of line hanging off from the main length known as the "leader." We gingerly wade out 10 or so yards from the bank and John strips off the trans­ parent fly-line from his reel, as he prepares to cast. Casting makes a good


cated business of deciding which flies to use. John takes out a telephone book size fly-box from the back


The line gracefully arcs back making a delightful swishing sound. When it has nearly straightened out behind him, he punches the rod forward releasing more line. This is repeated sever­ al times until he has nearly 30 yards of line out, then with one final flick forward the line snakes out across the water and the leader straightens gently drop­ ping the fly on surface. With bated breath, John


fly fisherman the noble artist he is - it is literally poetry in motion, as it relies on a good sense of rhythm. John rolls his wrist to straighten out the line then flicks his wrist back.


slowly starts to retrieve his line feeling for the tell-tale pluck of a biting fish. Sud­ denly, John sweeps his rod back as he strikes into a fish. He draws the line in by hand as the fish pulls the rod tip to and fro in jagged lunges. Soon, we see the sub-surface brassy flash of a fighting brown trout. Wild brown trout are truly beautiful to behold, their dark olive-brass flanks, glazed with a rainbow sheen are peppered with fire-red spots. This one


Pussycat Alex is bang on cue for our


exclusive interview


A H U R R IC A N E has h it Clitheroe - but for once failed


to do any damage. In fact, the cyclone in question,


| ex-snooker champion and legendary hellraiser Alex Higgins, seems to have very much blown himself out. He was staying at the home of our


senior sales representative, Lisa Rudg- yard, and her partner, John. Both are well known figures in the Ribble Valley licensing trade as proprietors of the Three Fishes Inn, Mitton, the Roch­ ester Arms, Ribchester, and the Green Man, Brock. As a good friend of John's,


| the snooker supremo had agreed to be the guest speaker at a sportsman's din­ ner at the Green Man. Would it be possible for me to meet the


figure swigging from a whiskey bottle, intimidating next door’s cats with that


I was expecting to meet a fire-brand


famous leer of his. Instead, I met a gentle, somewhat


weathered-looking chap perusing The Racing Post through reading glasses, with one of Lisa's shih-tzu puppies asleep at his


feet. I asked him if he fancied coming down


the local for a couple of frames of pool, but he would not play ball. In fact, he seemed more interested in


getting back to his paper. So, I thought I would just let him get on with it. Lisa told me after he had been very quiet the whole


time he had been there. She explained: "He was very meek and


turbulent cuesman? "No problem," said Lisa. So I nipped around to her house after work with one of our photographers.


mild-mannered. He just read his newspa­ pers, watched TV and that was it. I think he had half a lager the whole time he was


here.” Our picture shows yours truly inter­


viewing Alex (190598/25/02)


t h o u g h t for the week


L


et me confess, I am sometimes a pain in the neck; my wife’s


neck, that is. I snore and I.am sorry to do so. It


I lips shut and breathing through my nose. Evidently I can snore along a most unmusical scale. If I fall asleep in the lounge of a hotel, I can be sure to awake in an empty room, "whence all but he had fled."


is not a case of lying on my back too much, or sleeping with my mouth open. I can snore, it would appear, in any position, with my


I This little trait of mine can be very embarrassing and annoyingly monotonous, according to my spouse, who suffers most from it.


Christian virtue, but I have not ventured to mention this to Mary, who sighs and accepts me with all my shortcomings with loving patience. It is amazing how much people can bring themselves to put up with because of love.


being in the image of God. Now I realise we are capable of having God-like qualities, expressing great capacity for love, goodness, kindness, great patience and for­ giveness, such attributes as God has given to us of His nature. We are capable of such lovely


I used to wonder about our


qualities of life; the loving care of parents, kinsfolk and friends echo


that which God delights to share with us. The sacrificial love and


the innate qualities provided by God to help us to cope with such situations. The good news th a t Jesus


brought was that God is our lov­ ing, caring heavenly Father, giv­ ing, sharing, forgiving and ever loving and not in any way the cruel monster people of that day had thought Him to be. They had been totally wrong in their concep­ tion of what God was like.


the existence of God and chide me for my belief, I ask them if they also deny the visible attributes of.. God that surround us every day .. . love, joy, peace, patience, good­


When people venture to deny


ness, kindness and self-control. As / tn n n n f r ln n r Irnnwtortno nf


again. As the scientists repeatedly tell us of the orderly universe, I ask the doubters, who is behind such order? Can there be such evi­ dence without a creator or a direc­ tor? I am aware of the fact that I am


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John has is no monster compared to the 151b. rain­ bow trout he has caught reservoir fishing. Neverthe­ less at 12oz., this little "brownie” is still a delight to catch. John easily lifts the barbless hook from the fish's mouth and quickly slips him back into the water, unharmed. Some people would say John is insane throwing it back when it would taste so good pan-fried with almonds, but for John it is the sheer pleasure of catch­ ing the fish that counts. He also reasons th a t even though the river is regular­ ly stocked by the club, if everyone took their four- fish limit per session from the river, few would live to


a good size. We fish on through the


evening taking several sim­ ilar sized fish. We try the dry-fly, but as the evening wears on a persistent cold breeze puts the fish down and the occasional boils on


the surface, indicating "rises", trail off into noth- ing.


We swop many fishing


tales; John tells me of catching a "baby" 301b. tar­ pon in the Azores on a six- foot spinning rod and I tell him about my chub fishing efforts'on the Calder, where all I seem to be able to catch are "nuisance" trout. Before, we know it, it is nearly nine o'clock and while the trout seem to have fed well, we have not yet had our tea. John has one last cast, which results in the rod practically being wrenched from his hand, but somehow he misses it, but we are both sure it was the biggest fish in the river. Why, it had even doubled in size by the time I got to the pub! 9 Do you have any fishy


tales to tell? If so, give me a ring on 01200 422324.


unable to fully understand the problem of pain and suffering, but I know th a t God so loved the world th a t He gave His only begotten son that, whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life. I know that He died that we might live worthily and th a t, for all our faults, we are greatly loved. Surely it is time some of us responded to such a wonderful love.,


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