Figure 1.--.
|
Figure 1.--. |
Fishing is an activity that is mormally approached liesurly by individuals with considerable time on their hands. This is not the case of prep school children who have rather limited anounts of free time, especially during the week. In addition, for fishing to be a viable prep school activity there needs to be a stream or pond on the school grounfs that the children can take advantage of in their free time. This rather limits the number of schools. There are some activities that are possible even without a pond. We noticed the children being taught to fly fish or at least how to cast. Also we note at some schools fly tying which of course is a real art.
Fishing hobby was well attended this year although not many fish were caught. The Spring Term was particularly poor with no fish caught mainly due to the weather. Patrick Morrow caught three trout this summer and large numbers of minnows and gudgeon were also caught by various people.
LS, Great Walstead Magazine 1987.
When I took over the fly tying hobby at the start of the year I was very pleased to meet a keen and very pleasant group of Walstead children. Most whoncame to the hobby had done some before, usually with Mr Christie-Miller but by the end of the year a very large group of enthisiasts had at least tried to tie a fly. The star performer was undoubtedly J. White whose progress through the year was astounding.. Other loyal fly tyers were J. Howley, Se Mierre, Larmour, Mark Floyd Kavanagh, Cathy Gillard, most of my fishing hobby, and various Juniors including Mark Cardy and Nicky Ridgway. An incredible number of flies were tied (over 200!) varying from very strange creastures resembling stuffed budgies to almost perfect 'wet dlies'. In general it has been a good fly tying year and I hope that the people who have had ago will feel like carrying on with this hobby in the future. I would like to thank Jacob White, Charles De Mierre ad James Howley for their help on Open Day.
LS, Great Walstead Magazine 1987.
