Ben Murray

I Have Had Stacks Of Openings To Continue The Fishing I Loved In My Adolescence

April 8, 2011

My nonattendance from the canal-side in the years since I stopped angling appears so odd to me now. I used to adore it so much, particularly because my other activities tended to be at the violently energetic end of the spectrum, playing as I did rugby, football and cricket for different school and village sides. Having the opportunity to grab my fishing tackle, jump on a bike and ride for the ten minutes to travel to the local fishery and spend a few hours silently sat with a rod in my hand and watching a float on the water was a joy.

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A Web Resource To Hook Up Anglers With The Best Sites To Support Their Passion

April 8, 2011

The Internet Fishing Shop is committed to matching angling buffs with links from one main point to plenty of internet suppliers of fishing tackle in the UK, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The idea is offer value and variety of choice for web customers of fishing tackle and fishing goods.

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My 1st Ever Mini Maggot Drowning Outing Was An Absolute Bliss

April 8, 2011

I had finished the first year at 6th form college in Godalming and had bombed my 1st year exams, wasn’t enthusiastic about the 2nd year coming, did not want to go to college so my motivation wasn’t the best. Sooner or later I had a series of bust ups with the head of year and we, as football vernacular has it, parted company by mutual consent. And I had a weekend job in a Surrey department store that I could go full time with that was extremely tempting. Almost the same time, I stopped fishing. How dumb was that? I stacks more time through not having to do college work in the evenings again, and I well remember that I was a bit puzzled one time sure that there was something I was intending to be getting on with and it took me a little while to adjust. So I may have taken that time by going to the fishing tackle shop and adding to my bait and tackle since now I had far more income than I’d ever had before.

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My First Venture Into A New Area Was Motivated A Few Years Ago

April 8, 2011

I’ve founded my own fishing tackle shop on the net which is jolly exciting. It should allow me to expand my activities in carrying on with my SEO work as well as making money by joining affiliate marketing programmes and carrying links to retailers of bait and tackle, fishing books and DVDs as well as travel companies offering products providing for the tackle dangling enthusiast.

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The Sightseer’s Trail Is How To View The Exotic, Not Professionally Or Hobby

April 7, 2011

Many years ago, I knew a fella who used to work for McLaren, the F1 racing team, not the pushchair manufacturers. He did mysterious very technical things to do with the computers and we would occasionally see him in the pub in Guildford in the summer when there were no races on, or during the off season. He would very rapidly dispel any notion that his work was in any way a fabulous way to experience the world because, as he pointed out, he did not see much of it from inside the garage at a grand prix complex. In fact, almost the sole occasion he went out was to pull off the front right tyre of the cars at pit-stop time. I cannot help supposing that fishing travel is very similar.

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At Last A Vacation To Finalise A Bad Period And Some Space For Some Enjoyment

April 7, 2011

Once we’ve got the villa arranged, we are off on holiday! Hurray! We’re heading to Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands in April, for a vacation to finally put an end to the present Mrs Izzard’s cancer treatment which began with the confirmation in April, through surgery to excise the lump, chemotherapy all through the remainder of 2010 and then radiotherapy which she had in December and the early part of January.

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A Great Plan For A Television Programme To Benefit Angling And Revamp The Talk-Show

April 7, 2011

I’ve had a superb plan for a telly show. Following on from Robert Llewellyn’s (Kryton in Red Dwarf) fabulous Car Pool, in which he interviews celebrities while he gives them a lift somewhere, I have a vision of Tackle Out – a talk-show where the host goes off angling with a notable face and they sit by a gravel pit and chat about this and that.

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With My Wife’s Medical Management Ending I’ve Far More Time For Me At Last

April 7, 2011

Maybe I’m getting old or my bed dislikes me, but I’m getting up in the morning with a sore left shoulder and today my neck is painful too. It’s very frustrating as it hurts to keep my head straight. If I was to fetch the fishing tackle out and run for the water today, I fear that angling would be quite painful instead of what it should be, which is calming.

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A Wonderful Couple Of Days With Plenty Done And Some Interesting Questions Coming Up

April 7, 2011

Here we go for a new week coming from an excellent weekend which was greatly enjoyable, none of which involved angling. On Friday night I drove into Birmingham, not something I would usually do as I get flustered in cities being very much the out of town boy, but I was on a mission to see Big Country at the O2 Academy. The gig was wonderful, with Mike Peters standing in for the late, great Stuart Adamson and Bruce Watson’s lad Jamie on 2nd guitar.

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As A Kid, An Afternoon Out Maggot Drowning Was A Treat And A Signal Of Maturing

April 7, 2011

I’m looking back merrily on fishing days as I’m getting set to get on a resumption into the world’s favourite participation sport or pastime, call it what you will. I still have most of my bait and tackle sitting in the garage, much of it almost certainly outlawed and requiring substitution now so I will be making an early visit to one of the many neighbourhood fishing tackle shop in the area, and for a lot of the more normal gear, an internet bait and tackle site.

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