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We have just had released to us by the publisher two more of the 2008 gift special edition of 50 leather bound title "Out of the Blue" by Chris Yates. Buy them while you can!!!

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Diary
2008 August: Darracott Revisited
Thumbnail Image of Diary Entry Following my trip during the previous week, I decided to try for a day's session, and got caught up in the foul weather.

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2008 July: Fred J. Taylor, MBE -

When Fred J. Taylor, MBE died on the 7th May, 2008, his daughter Valerie very kindly passed his schoolbooks on to me for preservation ...



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2008 March: India: Fishing with a centipede -
Thumbnail Image of Diary Entry Bait was plentiful on a recent angling trip to the River Cauvery in Southern India, and Mahseer love ragi, a cereal based dough.  So do the monkeys! - but when it failed to produce a monster fish, our attention turned to the local wildlife ...

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2008 March: India: Shiva's Festival - Part One -
Location: Bush Betta Camp, Mekhedaatu-Sangam, Cauvery Sanctuary, Southern India.

Last night, I dined with good companions, under a black-velvet sky.  As the evening drew to a close, and their laughter-filled voices trailed off into the jungle night, I climbed into my wooden bed beneath the stars, clothed only in the silk shirt of an Indian Prince and I dreamt of tomorrow's dawn, and the unknown adventures it might bring ...


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2008 March: Bangalore: An Indian Love Affair -
Thumbnail Image of Diary Entry When my husband suggested a trip to fish for Mahseer on the sacred River Cauvery in Southern India, I made one helluva fuss.
'I don't want to go,' I protested; followed by: 'and anyway, what will I do whilst you're fishing with your buddies?'
'Write about it,' he said. So I did ...

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2007 September: Fishing the Red River, Lockport, Manitoba, Canada
Thumbnail Image of Diary Entry This is our first on-line diary, and we hope that you enjoy reading it. Designed to give you a flavour of some of our fishing trips and in some cases, some of the pitfalls, it will be regularly updated with the latest excursions.  Also included are extracts from The Reluctant Traveller, Journal of a fishing widow.  This is an interactive feature, and I'd welcome anecdotes from fisherman, or their wives and partners, but only send those you'd like to appear on the internet ... !

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