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86 years ago today...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:30 pm
by Shaun Harrison
86 years ago today Donald Leney released the first 50 x 5 1/2" to 8" carp into Redmire Pool. The rest is history.
We owe a lot to Donald for firing so many imaginations and so many subsequent hours of enthralling reading. Tonight I will raise a glass to Donald.
Re: 86 years ago today...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:41 pm
by Liphook
Thanks for that Shaun. I too will raise a dram to the father of not only of UK carp angling but modern carp aquaculture
Re: 86 years ago today...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:10 pm
by Old Man Oakley
Have any of you noticed this lot in the Wild Trout Trust auction, fishing for Leney carp and meeting his grandson
https://www.wildtrout.org/auction/one-d ... train-carp
Re: 86 years ago today...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:22 pm
by Shaun Harrison
I think it's actually Michael his son who ran the trout farm at Derby, rather than his grandson isn't it?
Re: 86 years ago today...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:25 pm
by Troydog
Amazing stuff Shaun. Quite incredible how it all evolved. There are lots of farm ponds in Herefordshire that are superficially very similar to Redmire. I fish a couple of them for the roach, they also invariably contain carp, but nothing to write home about.....
Re: 86 years ago today...
Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:50 pm
by Snape
It is amazing.
I had the privilege to see some of the Leney records last summer.
There is often confusion when talking of Leney's as if they were a particular strain. Leney stocked Galacian strain when he started stocking coarse fish (having only stocked trout before) but in later years he diversified and stocked a range of different carp strains.
Re: 86 years ago today...
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 5:01 am
by BoltonBullfinch
Sadly I was not able to raise a glass to Mr Leney due to spending the night in the cab of my truck, but, I am parked up for the night not a handful of miles from redmire pool, so that will have to be my respect shown instead of a alcoholic beverage. In fact I spend a fair few nights of the year parked up at Ross on Wye services.
Thanks
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