Today's the day!
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Only a couple of days till the 64th Anniversary gentlemen!
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Happy 64th !!
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Yes a toast is called for tonight chaps, to Dick and Ravioli.
Mark (Administrator)
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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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Well said boss!Mark wrote:Yes a toast is called for tonight chaps, to Dick and Ravioli.
"piscator non solum piscatur"
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A very special day - a toast to the great capture
and what makes it exceptionally easy to remember - its also my birthday today
and what makes it exceptionally easy to remember - its also my birthday today
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings
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Thank you JTJ.T wrote:Happy Birthday to you Julian!
Good day for it!
Too hot for fishing today but intend to be on the bank tomorrow at a small old pool, hopefully to catch a tench or two.
There is no peace on earth like the peace of fishing in the early mornings
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Dickie and Ravioli
And happy birthday Julian.
And happy birthday Julian.
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Angling truly changed that day: but sometimes I wonder, did it change for the better? Walker is my idol, or one of them - but I often think that success changed his style, and perhaps not for the best, - and because he was so famous, the nature of carp fishing took a wrong turn as a result? What do I mean? Well, when you read the early CCC letters and Drop Me a Line etc, Walker was as much of a stalker as he was a "sitter-outer". At Woldale, he was often 'on the stalk', and also at Temple Pool, and at Bearton Pond. But later and greater success at Dagenham, and then at Redmire, set the idea that sitting it out, buzzers attached, was the way to fish for big carp. It must have seemed that way - but might it not have been possible, back then, to catch Ravioli by stalking her? Of course, the day and the circumstance would have been entirely different - but we know from the letters that Walker had spotted a big common previously, - estimated at forty...
My point is this, Yates later showed how stalking at Redmire could get the big ones - a different approach, but equally successful...?
Of course, it was an approach which Walker himself had also pioneered, even before the foundation of the CCC.
PS - Have a very happy birthday, Julian.
My point is this, Yates later showed how stalking at Redmire could get the big ones - a different approach, but equally successful...?
Of course, it was an approach which Walker himself had also pioneered, even before the foundation of the CCC.
PS - Have a very happy birthday, Julian.