The Tuesday Swim has been a little quiet for a while and for good reason, I have taken on the role as picture editor for the newly formed publication Fallon’s Angler. For those who haven’t come across this quarterly may I point you in the direction of the website www.fallonsangler.net.
My task along with the editor, Garret is to bring to the reader, original, interesting, and thoughtful writing and photography, a tall order? Well, certainly a challenge but as ‘Fangler’ grows in momentum more opportunities are coming our way to discover new and old writers who have an interesting tale or perspective to share. I have just heard that we may have an old angling legend to grace the pages of issue 4.
My assignment for issue 3 was to visit Jean Williams in Usk and her wonderful traditional tackle shop that is filled with atmosphere and local knowledge. My photo essay and interview in Sweets I hope captures this atmosphere, I think it does.
If you are in the Usk area and curious about Sweets or our publication, Jean has a few copies under the counter which maybe thumbed or even purchased for the princely sum of a pair of pints!
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A wonderful picture which captures the atmosphere well. I met Jean back in the late 80’s then again mid 90’s and again in 1999. I fished the water just up from the town and up at the Giffaes House Hotel. Her knowledge was inspiring and her manner most charming. Somewhere in my boxes of tackle I still have a box of flies I purchased from her. Having seen Kiss The Water, it reminder me of a visit to Sweets in the 90’s, the smell and the dim light in the shop still vivid in my mind. I was also taken with her quite regal appearance. May The Lord still preserve gems like Jean and her quirky shop – a real step back in time and I’m pleased to see your photographs capture it. I have always wanted to photograph her, even capture her in oils but I guess too shy to ask her, I always respected her privacy but then again she is an icon of a generation of fishing folk off immeasurable talent, knowledge and personality.
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