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“…At the tail of the pool the line tightened; it was touch and go we might capsize, and in a trice thirty yards was off the reel as the fish slammed across the right bank, but the reel held, drew him up sharp and allowed us to gaff him after 20 minutes. My first ever forty pounder. I hadn’t another for 13 years” – Rev. John Pashley, recorded in ‘Tale of a Wye Fisherman’ by H a Gilbert, (My grandfather) 1921 The only thing rarer than a 1920’s Walnut Hardy’s Nottingham reel in fine condition is a salmon in the river Wye in 2003, but we can tell you where to go and fish, or take a walk and take a look…… Stuffed fish by jeff franks
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