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ometime in February 2015
I noticed a rather curious
advert in my local paper.
Someone was looking for
people interested in sea fishing ...
in Leicestershire? Sixty miles from
the sea?
There was a name and number so I
made the call. The gentleman on the
other end of the line told me a bunch
of like-minded, potential sea anglers
were meeting at the Old Hare and
Hounds, a pub in nearby Anstey in
Leicestershire. He also said that the
response to his ad was very promising
and that he now wanted to see how
many turned up to find out more and
to see where it would lead.
I have been an avid angler since I was
very young, predominately for carp,
and (as my long-suffering wife willtestify) I have always
been keen to have a go
at any type of fishing
that came my way, no
matter what it was for.The beginning
I couldn't wait to meet
these anglers and so, a
few weeks later, as
agreed, we all met up in
the pub. I had no idea how many
people would be there and even,
despite what he’d said, whether I
would be the only one. I was,
therefore, very pleased to see another
ten anglers waiting in the bar. After
everyone was introduced the fishing
stories began to roll out. I find this
is pretty much always the case when
a bunch of anglers get together witha pint in hand.
Even though we are in just about the
most central point in the country, at
least sixty miles away from the coast,
it quickly became clear that there was
a lot of interest in sea, beach, rock and
boat angling.
And so, the Anstey Sea Angling Club
was born with seven founder
members: myself, Roy Tattersall,
Richard Smith, Ady Jurkowski, KeithIn the second of our series on
unusual angling clubs, Ashley
Butcher, founder of The Anstey
Sea Angling Club, explains how
it all started.
Roy Tattersall, Richard Smith, Ashley Butcher, Adrian
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