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JULY 13TH 1980, A SUNDAY, WAS AN overcast and drizzly day in south-east Wales, with hardly a breath of wind, resulting in a slick calm on the murky, fast-flowing water of the Bristol Channel.
Thanks to a spring tide, it was the perfect day for collecting bait. A few hours finding crabs was initially all that Don Cook had intended as he loaded his old Hillman Avenger estate with bait bucket and boots, before heading west from his home near Barry to Aberthaw.
Don’s plan was to gather a few dozen peelers for a session later that evening, when he’d fish over high water at another mark targeting bass. It was only as an afterthought that Don threw in an old rod and an Abu 8000 reel, along with a couple of lead weights and hooks that he carried in
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