![]() ![]() Firearms and weapons are excluded from our shipping service, these must be collected or you will need to make your own arrangements you must be over 18 and provide appropriate ID. Please be aware all glass will be removed from framed and glazed items prior to posting. Quotes for this service will not generally be provided for consignments that cost under £15 to pack and despatch. ![]() VAT will be applied at the standard rate where applicable. Please be aware larger, bulkier and more expensive items will attract further charges to cover the extra carriage and associated insurance costs. Although Mullocks are not expert packers, we will pack and despatch lots for those bidders who are unable to collect their items in person.Ĭharges for this service will be made to cover all costs including labour, packing materials, storage, sourcing, documentation preparation, post office and courier collection & delivery, insurance and fuel surcharges. Collections must be made from the premises of Mullocks within 10 days of the auction, after which time all items will be packed automatically for despatch and charged at the purchaser’s expense. Successful purchasers must notify the Auctioneers within 24 hours if you are making your own arrangements for collection. And of course, put a hefty dollop of hope in my heart.General delivery information available from the auctioneer I’ll go and pack now, along with camera, polaroids, binoculars and notepad. I don’t expect to fish much if at all, but you never know when trouty temptation might come my way. Anyway, we have long been separated, and I will pack a rod for my trip, probably a Hardy I still have left over from the days I worked for them. Stupidly, I never thought to take any notice of its maker, and I guess from the set in the top joint it wasn’t exactly new when it came into my possession. (I didn’t dare go AWOL, but I claim little credit for the hard work that was done.)īack upriver to “my” little length now, and I fished it lightly to be honest: when you own a water, the fish become pets more than targets, but when I was tempted out I used a 7 foot greenheart rod that I had been given as a child around 1963. Trout fishing was advanced here in the Eighties, largely under the auspices of that great Norfolk angler Michael Robbins, and it was under his benevolent dictatorship that Sunday morning working parties did some fine work. (My memory tells me the fly was a Red Quill, but I have lost my copy to check!)īeneath the Blickling beat, you come to the Abbots Hall stretch, where the river is becoming noticeably wider and deeper. He tells of losing his fly in a trout there at midday, but catching the same trout and retrieving his lost fly at 5.00pm. ![]() Celebrated Norfolk author Major Anthony Buxton wrote about the stretch in his book Fisherman Naturalist, published way back in 1946. Downriver from my beat runs the modestly famous Blickling water where a club has fished for a very long time indeed. Travel North West, however, and the Bure is one of those little known Norfolk chalk streams that exists largely under the radar, completely overshadowed by the famous streams of Wessex. Most of you will not know the upper Bure, and might have visions of the same river down in Broadland, perhaps around Wroxham, where it is wide, deep, tidal, and often pretty dirty and unappealing to a fly fisher. At the same time, I might learn something about how I have changed for better or for worse in equal measure. This will be a completely candid look at how a river I have loved has weathered since I last knew it intimately. I have no particular points to prove, and I’m going with no preconceived ideas or hidden agendas. I might also talk to the farmer for whose family I worked on the land back in Uni holidays. I’ll be thinking about the insects, the weed growth, bird life, fish stocks, and even how Saxthorpe has changed as a community. It so happens, I am spending four days there this coming week, forty-odd hours walking, watching, perhaps fishing a little, but above all considering the changes there might have been in exactly forty years. The rent was £60 and I held onto the water for a few years, keeping quite an accurate record of my time there in a very rudimentary type of diary. In 1981, I rented a three mile stretch of the upper Bure around the village of Saxthorpe in North Norfolk. ![]()
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