GRAZY ROBERTS - PISCATOR

My love of fishing began, as it does with many anglers, when I was a young lad just eight years of age. My best friend at school ’emigrated’ to Shrewsbury and I have fond memories of us fishing the River Severn during the long and sunny school holidays. We’d fish for anything that would take our bait on a stretch of the river known as ‘The Quarry’ near to the Leisure Centre mostly Gudgeon and small silvers but the occasional Chub would have us captivated for hours until it was time to go home for our supper.

In 2008 I took up fishing once again and re-stocked the tackle with all mod-cons, carbon rods, bait runner reels, fancy pants luggage and the latest and greatest must have gizmo’s however I have more recently swapped carbon for cane and bait runner for pin and returned to the grass roots of angling in a very traditional way as you’ll see from my more recent posts.

Back to the beginning, in 2008 I spent my first year, almost as an apprentice, on the commercials learning the fine art of angling all over again. Then having left the commercial fisheries and returned to the rivers where I once enjoyed the innocence of childhood. In 2011 I joinedLymm Angling Club based in Cheshire and I must say that although I’m slightly biased the clubs waters have provided me with some incredible fishing over the past few years and I’ve met some great anglers who will remain good friends for a long time to come.