As I’m a part of the Thomas Turner group, I wonder if I can prevail on my great pal John Stephenson to fill me in on the reel pictured? It would be of interest to me, and hopefully others. A friend in Spain who I have not seen for well over a decade recently sent […]
Tag Archives: barbel
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Oct
Oct
Edited by Denise Ashton and Theo Pike, Published by The Wild Trout Trust Looking for a Christmas present for a fishing pal of taste and discretion? Or yourself, come to that? Well, I’ve just put down Not Really Fishing, a hundred pages of magic compiled by the WTT from the musings and memories of their […]
06
Sep
Sep
I saw in yesterday’s Sunday Times (5th September 2021) that Lyng Mill, in Lyng, Norfolk, has come on the market, priced in excess of one million pounds. I mention this in case any well-heeled anglers thinking about a move East might be interested, and because Lyng Mill has played such a large part in my […]
16
Aug
Aug
If you are over forty-odd, you just might! Look hard and think back some thirty years. Who would be using a ‘pin back then, and a ‘pin you might have seen somewhere for yourself? And where would you have seen it? In the angling press? On TV perhaps? A ‘pin angler. On TV. Thirty years […]
28
Jul
Jul
The Wye looks so serene and pure… from a distance In the few days since TT first talked about the Passion For Clean Rivers, things have moved on, especially down on the Wye. The weekend just gone (24/25th July) saw large numbers of salmon dying in the middle reaches of this river, and barbel dead […]
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Passion For… ‘Poles Apart: The History of the London Roach Pole’ by Michael Nadell
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Jul
Jul
Poles Apart is published by Coch-y-Bonddu Books, and hit our shelves back in 2013. In our view, it remains one of the greatest books for tackle collectors this century for a wide variety of reasons. Above all, absolutely everything anyone would need to know about the London roach pole is written here. This is the […]