Sad news indeed. I’d known Adrian since the early 80s when he was a member of Watford Piscators. He had been at Harefield tackle for a long time – he had a very dry sense of humour and was always ready with a well-delivered put-down when regulars walked into the shop. I remember about 30 years ago he did an Angling Times feature on the River Gade in Watford, catching a good bag of chub and a really big roach about 1lb 12ozs. Of course, by the time the feature was published the roach had ‘grown’ to 2lbs…the angling press, eh?! Adrian had the centre-spread from the AT framed and hung on the wall.
Adrian was also an excellent canal angler, using the pole in recent years, but in the 80s he was also a top-class waggler angler who favoured the old Shakespeare Mach 2 Boron rods – I believe he owned several of them. He also did well on the Thames – he was a true all-round matchman, not a one-water angler like so many in these days of commercial carp puddles.
RIP Adrian – and wherever you’ve gone, I hope you’ve drawn a good peg.
TF_LolB.
