[Leica] PAW 18

[Douglas Barry]

Did the worms myself on occasion, Ric, but more often rod fished in the 
sea off the rocks with a spinner.

On the other hand, for crabs, you just hit a limpet with a rock enough 
to dislodge it. Extracted it and put the bait on the hook, let it drop 
to the bottom and then waggle it about for interest. Within a few 
minutes, a curious something would come out and attempt to eat it. Bingo.

The boat was a later addition as my father got an old 12 foot dinghy 
when I was about 13/14 to teach us to sail. Interestingly built wooden 
clinker boat from the 1920s, but impossible to get up onto the plane, 
despite our best efforts, which was disappointing to us young 
thrillseekers who knew what a more modern boat could do. That said, it 
was a lovely boat, and incredibly stable as once I had it out in the bay 
with my younger brother when sudden squalls struck. We headed back as 
best we could but the fierce wind actually tore the old sail. We had to 
get back with my younger brother holding enough of it up to act as a 
jury rigged storm sail. My father's face was thunderous when we finally 
made it back in.

I just looked one up and a bit like old Leicas, the price of one of them 
is crazy these days. http://12footdinghy.org/ We never used it for 
racing as it was just kept down at the holiday home in West Cork, and 
eventually my Dad sold it after fifteen or twenty years. I'm sorry we 
don't have it now as being in my seventies, I could do with its 
stability and forgiving properties, if I wanted to take my grandson out.

Douglas

On 24/05/2023 01:46, Ric Carter via LUG wrote:
> I GET that! Even the folks around here look askance at such heavy armament;^)
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> I remember my “country” fishing as a youth. I didn’t have a boat, but I DID have cane pole I could hang from the bridge a half-mile down the road.Our bait was earthworms. That’s still popular.
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> Ric
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>> On May 22, 2023, at 10:05 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
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>> I'm going for "Fishing 6" in all its late flowering American Empire multi-rodded glory, Ric.
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>> When I went fishing as a kid, one rod was the rule on the river, and, when we went sea fishing, it was actually rodless as we threw a single line of multiple feathered lures over the side of the boat. Very rewarding to get into a shoal of mackerel and pull out a string of six or seven slippery silver specimens on the one dip into the blue abyss.
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>> Douglas
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>> On 21/05/2023 14:29, RicCarter via LUG wrote:
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