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Re: Are we different in the UK
What I remember is fishing matches along a featureless canal, with a hundred other anglers. All using size 20 spade end hooks or smaller and match stick sized floats. The winning weight, quite often just a few ounces. I think the available hook sizes go as small as 32, just large enough to hide in a bread crumb.
At large, professional competitions, it is not unheard of for an angler to hook into a 2lb tench and to snap the line off. Because he could catch more weight in tiddlers in the time it would take to land the heavy, strong fighting tench.
My friend, a very keen angler, used a roach pole, with a short length of elastic at the end. You would dismantle the pole to bring the fish in. I myself built a 14.5 ft rod for my fishing. It looked like a walking stick next to his pole.
Ah! those were the days.
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