Match fishing in 1963

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A bygone age i remember Gordon's coaches from Rotherham doing the fishing trip's in the 70s Dunham bridge being one of the popular venues you booked your trip from Grices fishing tackle shop in Rotherham their was also another well known shop in the town that as youngsters we bought rabbit snares and purse nets. There is no fishing tackle shop in the town these days.

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It was much the same when I started match fishing around 1970. There was an old bloke who always wore a Gaberdine mac and trilby. He was like a robot on the Trent, fishing stick float and centrepin. He always did well.

Those coach trips to the Lincolnshire and Nth. York's rivers in summer and the winter matches on the Trent were brilliant. I was in two clubs, both run by Barnsley area WMCs. One was match fishing and the other inshore boat fishing. The outings were fortnightly on different weeks so one week I'd be off Scarborough or Whitby and the next on the Swale or Witham. All the anglers other than us kids were colliers.