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IN A IFE NG A local gravel pit L L Y IN yielded this tinca M G for Jan Porter. DON’T MISS OUT! If I’ve offended anyone, Bob Robert

Bob Roberts has Quick questions done it all, but stick float remains his first love. Tench quest begins How old were you when Q you first went fishing, JAN Porter started this season’s quest for a big tench and who took you? with the capture of this 5lb fish from his local gravel pit. I was 11 and I went with they deserved it T he 58-year-old matchman turned specimen hunter, A my stepfather. whose previous best for the species is 8lb, fished a atch, man magazine and said, based on my underwater whether we could make a paternoster rig with a large Drennan mesh open-ended What was the first fish editor, specialist DVD Kevin Wilmot observations, that most barbel commercial DVD, with two people feeder filled with Dynamite Baits Swim Stim groundbait. Q you caught? maker, columnist for Deputy editor anglers don’t feed enough. One on screen talking to each other. Jan completed his set-up with a 0.16mm hooklink It was a perch of maybe the Sport newspaper, individual was incensed by this. Next we added underwater footage attached to a size 16 barbless hook baited with chopped A 4oz, which cut me with BobM Roberts has done the lot, “Do me a favour, write three He wrote to Sky complaining about and created our very first film, and worm, caster and three red maggots. its gill cover. and all while holding down a articles, just for me.” So I did. Next me, he wrote to my sponsor’s that led us on to our latest project, l Visit the GoFishing YouTube channel to watch the ‘proper’ job in engineering. thing he was on the phone saying: headquarters in Japan and he Caught in the Act, which is full My Life In Angling interview with Jan Porter. Who was your fishing In this week’s My Life in Angling, “First one goes in next month.” even went to the police and something I’m incredibly proud of. Q ‘hero’ that fuelled the the Doncaster all-rounder reveals From that day forward there has reported me. I had to go to the fire in the early years? how one of his opinions prompted a never been a month when I haven’t police station and explain myself. You skippered the Goldthorpe We’re on First Richard Walker, trip to the local police been in a fishing magazine. They paid him a visit and he’s Q squad. What were they like? facebook! Pike man’s trout shock A then Kevin Ashurst and station… quietened down now. Russ Fowler, who had Tom Pickering. You are known for your Goldthorpe Angling Centre, SIMON Brough had a A What made you turn sometimes controversial How did you get into making handpicked the best club anglers welcome surprise when Q What fishing venue have from being a opinions. Does this bother you? angling films? and we won the Division 5 National he landed this 12lb 8oz Q Q GRAND FINAL brown trout while Q you spent the most time successful match angler to being An opinion is only Ten years ago I started doing against 107 teams of 12. We won our flyfishing for pike at his at in your angling career? more of an all-rounder? A controversial if you don’t A some adventure travel with second National as well. Back then SAT 31st AUG 2013 LES THOMPSON local game fishing venue. The Trent, a river that’s I was an all-rounder before I agree with it. I do make some quite Stuart Walker and we started you needed to be far more versatile MAVER LARFORD LAKES 2012 CHAMPION The owner of the Pike A had many incarnations A was a match angler. I only outrageous statements, but 90 per filming these trips for the than today, learning new skills every Shack guiding service over the years. started match fishing because I cent of people agree with me. The memories. Later, I wondered year. Simon Brough’s 12lb brownie. in Matlock, Derbyshire, “I’ve caught loads of couldn’t find swims to fish on the internet has given a platform to Don’t delay - call today! was already having a trout while flyfishing What’s your most Trent at weekends. In those days every idiot in the world, and if I’ve You’re a columnist for the successful session, with memorable catch? the river was packed with matches. offended anybody on the internet Sport newspaper. How come? the capture of a 15lb 8oz for pike in the past, but Q Q Probably a huge sturgeon and the only way to get to fish it was through my views, it’s because They contacted me through esox when his artificial I’ve never had anything 01527 406300 offering, cast close to like this so it was a great A we caught on the Fraser to become a match angler. they deserved it. I went A my website to ask me to write willow trees, was taken result,” Simon told River, even though it was on Keith Arthur’s a column. A lot of their readers are by the specimen trout. Angling Times. foul-hooked! 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