I have updated the Match List to include R Weaver, Barnton, Red Lion on Saturday 1st September.
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We learned, at last weeks meeting, that Ted Mannion had died on Christmas Eve. Ted was 90 and had not been in the best of health for a while.
I first met Ted in 1972 on my first trip with the club. It was to Loch Ken in Scotland and Ted sat next to me on the coach. We took a lot of booze on the trips in those days and by the time we got to the Lochside Ted had got me too drunk to fish, I was 18. Ted was a fisherman with a distinct style of his own. Basically he didn’t like spending money on tackle. You would often see him ledgering using half inch Whitworth Nuts as weights. He was also a poacher “Extraordinaire”, his ears pricking up if anyone said a water had Trout in it. Ted would have admitted he was not a matchman but the committee recently had a chuckle when given access by landlord Terry to some old Match Books he had found in a set of drawers. On scrutiny it was found that somebody had doctored all Teds match weight by adding 10 lbs so that he had won most of the matches. I could write for hours about his antics but will stop here. The funeral is to be on Monday 15th Jan at Blessed John Henry Newman Church, Knutsford Road, Latchford. He will be missed |
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