Extreme Fish ! No Swearing!
Great day out Tope Fishing with www.norfolkfishingtrips.co.uk last Tuesday. Many thanks to the skipper Adam and crew Tammy. Unlike Mr Robson Green I hooked, played and boated the beast without an expletive. Oh! O.K.! One or two "Why bless me"s! Duly measured weighed and tagged, the fish was slipped back into the sea and swam off with vigour. Afterwards I fell to thinking about the effort of winding the fish in. The fishing gear had been provided on the boat. All of the best quality. What we today call a reel Izaak Walton, he of the Complete Angler, called a pulley. George Herbert, one of his fishing chums ( he also fished with John Donne and the Kenna who appears in the Complete Angler was Thomas Ken's half-sister!) wrote : The Pulley VV Hen God at first made man,
Having a glass e of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) poure on him all we can:
Let the worlds riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.
So streng