Simple Match Fishing Forum

Coombe Abbey ?
Not sure of angler, looks a bit like Ivan, but also looks like a few others !!!!!!
Most had the same looking basket, bet they used to fight over the whicker in those early days on them national coaches !!!!!!!!!

good shout with ivan but i never saw ivan with sunglasses what was his mates name anderson percy

I think Ivan had a six legged wicker basket in those days; in fact I saw him on lots of occasions with an old fashioned laundry basket, - they were 'uge

Also that box that Percy? is sitting on. It looks like a large four legger and quite a few anglers treated the willow with some smelly tar type liquid to strenthen then and make them last longer.

I didn't with one of mine and I can well remember lifting it out of the Trent at Shardlow, (they doubled up as bait trays on the Trent) and left they bottom of it in the river

Never lost 'owt though we used to empty 'em out before they went in the river.

and left they bottom of it in the river    

Rumour has it Bill you were found in some rushes in a whicker basket.....any truth in that 

He's older than that...