Another bedraggled specimen drags himself aboard...

[St.John]

Hi vole, welcome home...

[Vole]

Perhaps I ought to say (I was going to save it for the "names" thread) that I tried to sign up as "Grumpalump", but it fell down the back of the cyber-sofa; a second application as a small mammal went through smoothly, and here I am, enrolled and envoled.
I had a Staples Corner childhood, so it was Welsh Harp, Grand Union at Perivale and Alperton (wish I'd known about the "Hole in the Wall", much nearer home), Tidal Thames, Hampstead ponds, then Cassiobury (deep joy - CHUB! proper fish!) and now I'm in Barnet, Jack's Lake, the Lea, Stanborough and Holwell Hyde.

[GloucesterOldSpot]

Perhaps I ought to say (I was going to save it for the "names" thread) that I tried to sign up as "Grumpalump", but it fell down the back of the cyber-sofa; a second application as a small mammal went through smoothly, and here I am, enrolled and envoled.
I had a Staples Corner childhood, so it was Welsh Harp, Grand Union at Perivale and Alperton (wish I'd known about the "Hole in the Wall", much nearer home), Tidal Thames, Hampstead ponds, then Cassiobury (deep joy - CHUB! proper fish!) and now I'm in Barnet, Jack's Lake, the Lea, Stanborough and Holwell Hyde.

Ah right - I think I know who you are now. We meet again.

Stanborough - good grief. Rob Maylin called it the cracker factory, and it's not far off. The river was quite nice though. I caught my first double-figure carp from the lake many years ago, on floating crust running up off a small bomb. Ten pound four it weighed. Then, on the very next cast, I go and get a ten-fourteen. Nearly made it a hat-trick next cast, but I missed it! My friend had his first twenty that day, also on crust. We ended up raiding the bins by the cafe to find scraps of hot-dog roll for bait...

Jack's Lake was the first place I ever fished with rod and line. Did you ever look at Moat Mount?

[SeanM]

Hello Vole!