“…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
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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……
The
Wye Usk Foundation
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