I hadn't a clue lolol, one was fishing for a woman and she was taking a rod but the wrong one haha, It reminds me of fishing when I was young,
I met Bob on numerous occasions during the mid 80's when we were fishing Somerley in Ringwood You can still fish Redmire their taking bookings now, not sure of stock levels these days, more about the history though
Guy i know is just back from the Pool,
"Had a week at Redmire last week, our usual yearly trip, well this yeat it went brilliant, landed 6 and lost 2, fish were 15lb mirror, 16.4 common, 17lb linear, 19.2 common, 23.4 common and a 26.