Is this one of those urban myths from the world of angling? It does sound rather upsetting
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It's upsetting because one does hold both of these in high esteem. While acknowledging that both were quite different in their approach perhaps? I see Venables as the quiet contemplative angler while Walker was very much the scientific and precise angler. I think we all (that may be rather all encompassing) strive to be a little bit of each of these two giants. It is rather sad to think they were frictional towards each other. But, I suppose not everybody can get one with everybody else.Mick B wrote:No need to get upset Kefanf1
They are both dead and buried so its nothing to concern yourself about.
That said Venables was a nice old gent and a fine artist but in no way could he be considered the angler, innovator or thinker Richard Walker was.
Walker thought Venables had borrowed his style from the poet Edmund Blunden, but that Venables didn't do it half so well....Ryeman wrote:I remember an article Walker wrote in which he gently poked fun at the flowery writing style of some angling journalists. Describing a trip to the river he wrote "The purple loosestrife was striving and the winter water looked profoundly promising" Surely this was a send up of Venables.
( Goodness knows why I remember this. My memory is terrible generally...)
Alan