Mentioned on the previous page Julian, I also found it most enjoyable...Julian wrote:I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned Magical Waters with John Searl.
A real mixture of vintage and modern tackle , but very traditional with most of the approach to fishing.
The barbel fishing on that very beautiful stretch of the Hampshire Avon is superb, as are most of the scenes on this wonderfully filmed video.
However for me the best section of all is when he is fishing at a beautiful remote pool for wild carp with an old MKIV and Mitchell and catches a stunning dark old carp.
Rivals to A Passion for Angling?
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If you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything...........
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Apologies Jerry, I read through the whole post again just before I posted that but somehow missed it- probably too many shandysJerryC wrote:Mentioned on the previous page Julian, I also found it most enjoyable...Julian wrote:I'm really surprised that no one has mentioned Magical Waters with John Searl.
A real mixture of vintage and modern tackle , but very traditional with most of the approach to fishing.
The barbel fishing on that very beautiful stretch of the Hampshire Avon is superb, as are most of the scenes on this wonderfully filmed video.
However for me the best section of all is when he is fishing at a beautiful remote pool for wild carp with an old MKIV and Mitchell and catches a stunning dark old carp.
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings
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Fishing With the Experts - for the Secret Carp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... dKtDCFC0rk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... dKtDCFC0rk
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I almost forgot James Prosek's beautiful Izaak Walton documentary:
I said goodbye to what I knew and embraced the ways of old, with it taking on the attitude that big isn't best.
Stuart Harris, 'From Carbon to Cane'
Stuart Harris, 'From Carbon to Cane'
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It has to be The secret carp with Christopher Yates. Takes me to a different plateau every time. Wonderful.
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May I ask what exactly is meant by that please, Sir?Teifi Terror wrote:It has to be The secret carp with Christopher Yates. Takes me to a different plateau every time. Wonderful.
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This also has excellent qualities -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDFDO46kptc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr4b63VVG68
Andy Orme's contribution has a surreal quality to it that we all will recognise at some point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDFDO46kptc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr4b63VVG68
Andy Orme's contribution has a surreal quality to it that we all will recognise at some point
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That he didn't, didn't already have
But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
That he didn't, didn't already have
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There is a DVD you can purchse called 'The Secret Carp' with Chris Yates.OldTackle wrote:May I ask what exactly is meant by that please, Sir?Teifi Terror wrote:It has to be The secret carp with Christopher Yates. Takes me to a different plateau every time. Wonderful.
Mark (Administrator)
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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Thank you for letting me know, Mark. It is ordered.
Fishing with the experts for the secret carp. I hope I ordered the correct one?
Fishing with the experts for the secret carp. I hope I ordered the correct one?
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