This is the home page "The Path by the Water" forum.

Judge_CrustyOldBob aka 'Admin' has tacked in some other pages and this basic style, which allows me to fit stuff around the actual forum pages to keep it looking more or less the same as the other pages.

You can use the email link in the footer for any suggestions...as long as you keep them clean.

About TPBTW

"The Path by the Water" is a cyber-space shed with kettle, for like minded anglers who place as much emphasis (well almost) on the type of biscuit or cake as they do the rod, reel or bait.

It's much less about tackle and rigs and much more about ethos.

The site will be predominantly forum based, although there will be links to things we like and in the fullness of time, galleries for members' pictures.

We like meandering threads. A good web discussion should be like a good pub chat - beginning with a notion, weaving back and forth into the proposition at regular intervals but going off like a specimen fish played on light tackle, with a thumb on the reel and the expectation it will be netted in the end (mixing metaphors along the way of course).

This site is, and will remain, free of commercial interests and will never carry advertisements, either in or out of thread.

The name is borrowed from the A. R. B. Haldane's account of his early days of trout fishing as a boy in the Ochil hills and then onto trout waters in Argyll and the water meadows of Hampshire. It's an evocative and wonderful account, all fishermen should read this and dream.