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Cheer up, Charlie

I am more than happy to enlist the help of others in my efforts to educate Charlie in the ways of field and stream. One such individual is Jason, the proprietor of Diss Angling Centre. Charlie and I popped into our local Aladdin’s cave of all things piscatorial to buy some maggots. While Jason tipped a pint of red and white wriggling beauties into my bait box, Charlie explained that we were in quest of chub.

This lit Jason’s blue touchpaper and we were treated to an encyclopaedic half-hour lecture on tactics, locations, depths to fish and best baits for the river Waveney, in the sage and generous way that only true experts impart their knowledge. So my boy

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