They don’t know it yet
but Bideford and District Angling Club are about to acquire a new member. Aspiring angler Charlotte Donaldson, 7, accompanied her two brothers when they fished in a club competition on Sunday from Bideford Quay.
It was the first time that she had been fishing – but it turned out to be the day she caught her first fish. And that made Charlotte determined more than ever to join her brothers as a member of the Bideford club.
Gazette article dated 4 January 1974