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smallstreams.com is both a community and a collection of thoughts, images and prose by fishers who all share a love of fishing the intimate waters of our planet... small waters that are thankfully often overlooked by mainstream anglers. If you enjoy casting a fly to fish that will often wholly fit in your hand, welcome to our home.

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Member Profile: Doctor

A decade or more ago I decided computing would be a necessary part of being employable. Guess what I found… yeah,  Smallstreams. It was then very much Adam and the big cat team, I’ve been an on and off poster ever since.

Me? Born in 1950 in the UK, where we still had food rationing as a result of the 2nd World war and the UK being up to its neck with debt. I grew up with a vague feeling of never eating quite enough, which was not quite true. My country cousins, farmers, all had an excess of meats and fruit and vegetables. When we visited we would have over full stomachs. I did OK at school, guess I could have stayed on after age 16, but my exams did not promise much so I was apprenticed as a chef . A month later exam results came in, I was offered a place in the 6th form. Too late. I already had an income,  mates who knew rock and roll clubs (and good pre taliban afgani stuff,) etc… etc… and wow!

1967 turned into 1969… Continue reading Member Profile: Doctor