Letter: A fishy business in the Don

REGARDING the story about getting salmon in the River Don, I remember as a nipper on grandad Ogden’s knee in early 50s being told by him that when he was a youngster living on Snail Hill  in town he used to swim in the Don where Chapel on the Bridge is and jumped of the bridge and I’m pretty sure he said there were salmon in the river. This was early 1900s

At this time when I first knew him he was a top angler who made his own tackle that was bought off him by Grice’s fishing shop in town and most anglers in Dalton would get their tackle off him. Us grandkids grew up watching him making the rods in his shed on his garden which was at the back of where the  Davy Lamp pub was on Laudsdale Road, East Herringthorpe.

I remember going up into his attic on Saville Street, where he kept the finished rods. He also took us with him when he went fishing usually with his son (Uncle Tom).

Happy memories.

Ray Hill, East Herringthorpe