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 July
30 was a seminal day in Terry Lawton's young life. It was
on that day he caught his first fish, a dace. He recorded
this event in red crayon in the back of his copy of Introduction
to Angling by Eric Taverner. The book was first published
in 1953 and it must have been that year, or the following
one, when the dace was caught.
From
then on until his mid-teens, he was a very keen fisherman
- mostly for coarse fish - and spent most weekends sitting
on the bank of the river which flowed through the family
farm.  When he was about 14 he had a holiday in Scotland
and did some Salmon fishing on the river Spey at Grantown.
Sailing was starting to become a major interest and within
a few years he had stopped fishing to spend his time racing
dinghies.
Terry started fishing again in the late 1980s, but this
time fly fishing. Although river fishing is his passion
- particularly nymph fishing - he enjoys researching and
writing articles about all aspects of fly fishing. His articles
have been published in a number of English fishing magazines,
on various angling websites and, perhaps most notably, an
article on Czech nymphing which has been translated and
published in the Czech Republic.
He caught his biggest wild brown trout (in the UK) - 4lb
2oz - on a home-tied variant of a goldhead, Sawyer-style
pheasant tail nymph in 1999. He has since caught bigger
trout in northern Sweden but the British fish is still his
prize "capture".
Terry's articles have appeared on
numerous sport and fishing web sites including the European
fly fishing site Fish
& Fly.
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