Hi Patric, Was your father Ron Kyte? My father and a Ron Kyte were mature students in Northampton in the late sixties. I'm sure Ron was a member of The Northampton Specimen Group, at the time the foremost such group in the country.
Hi David, yes my father is Ron Kyte and he is still going fishing quite a lot. He is still going over the River Ouse, often on his own chub fishing and he likes going to Castle Ashby for carp. He caught his biggest ever fish, a common carp of 29lbs earlier this season at the age of 85. I passed on your comment to him and he doesn't remember anyone called Fisher while he was a mature student training to be a teacher. Would you be able to reply with your father's full name and I can see if that jogs his memory? Thank you, Patric
@@patrickyte6281 Thanks for the reply Patric. My father's name was Sam Fisher. Despite the surname he had no interest whatsoever in fishing. He died in October 2017 at 91, so would have been about 9 - 10 years older than Ron. They both knew one of the lecturers, Tom Adams. I took Tom's youngest son Simon, aged about 11 - 12 fishing several times. I remember Simon used to test me by asking fishing related questions to see if I gave the same answer that Ron had given him! I stopped fishing for quite a few years and started again about 20 years ago when my 14 year old son wanted to start. These days I almost only do fly fishing for trout. I enjoy the midland reservoirs but living in Kent means I mostly fish a small (6 - 7 acre) lake. We had some very large fish stocked last autumn, I had 4 double figure browns between October and February. Someone else caught a 15 pounder, a new lake record. However size is of academic interest, they do not put on weight after stocking so you can only catch what has been stocked.
Hi Patric, Was your father Ron Kyte? My father and a Ron Kyte were mature students in Northampton in the late sixties. I'm sure
Ron was a member of The Northampton Specimen Group, at the time the foremost such group in the country.
Hi David, yes my father is Ron Kyte and he is still going fishing quite a lot. He is still going over the River Ouse, often on his own chub fishing and he likes going to Castle Ashby for carp. He caught his biggest ever fish, a common carp of 29lbs earlier this season at the age of 85. I passed on your comment to him and he doesn't remember anyone called Fisher while he was a mature student training to be a teacher. Would you be able to reply with your father's full name and I can see if that jogs his memory? Thank you, Patric
@@patrickyte6281 Thanks for the reply Patric. My father's name was Sam Fisher. Despite the surname he had no interest
@@patrickyte6281 Thanks for the reply Patric. My father's name was Sam Fisher. Despite the surname he had no interest whatsoever in fishing. He died in October 2017 at 91, so would have been about 9 - 10 years older than Ron. They both knew one of the lecturers, Tom Adams. I took Tom's youngest son Simon, aged about 11 - 12 fishing several times. I remember Simon used to test me by asking fishing related questions to see if I gave the same answer that Ron had given him!
I stopped fishing for quite a few years and started again about 20 years ago when my 14 year old son wanted to start. These days I almost only do fly fishing for trout. I enjoy the midland reservoirs but living in Kent means I mostly fish a small (6 - 7 acre) lake. We had some very large fish stocked last autumn, I had 4 double figure browns between October and February. Someone else caught a 15 pounder, a new lake record. However size is of academic interest, they do not put on weight after stocking so you can only catch what has been stocked.
Patric did you change to a floating line or is the green line a slow intermediate?
The green line is meant to be a floater. Although I was mostly using lead head flies that may make the tip sink.