A very enjoyable clip with Jack Hargreaves - thanks Mike..
I have been pondering the question of who I would most like to fish with. There are three answers really.
The first has to be the late Bill Tagg who taught me to tie flies and who was the first president of our fishing club. He is probably not known outside of Staffordshire or Derbyshire but down here he was Isaac Walton himself. Built lovely cane rods in his shed. He made all his own tools, planing formers, kiln and all the stuff for fly tying. He also wrote a nice little black book on the art of fly dressing. My second choice would be the late Col Sir Allan Gilmore. A man of stature who I admired dearly for his modesty and simple ways. He proved to me that a wee double stoats tail would outfish the bigger flies on his beat of the Cassley, even with a bit of spate on. Golden days in his boat on the Furalach would be a dream come true.
And the third but by no means last - any forum member that has 'loch style' embedded in their DNA - especially Hamish with the dapper.
