New TV series?..

[Vagabond]

Polly:

remember one of the teams managing to creep into a zoo after dark and catching a pirahna.

That particular team was the late Ian Gillespie, and Jim Gibbinson, still posting here (and perhaps too modest to 'fess up )

 

I can still hear Ian's whisper "Well, that was very quietly done Jim - you are now looking at the British (Rod Caught) Record piranha."

 

Ian's untimely death was a sad loss to the angling world.

 

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[Dick Dastardly]

Sorry Jim! I forgot you post here to! its me age mate.

[Guest sslatter]

Hey Budgie.. "Hooked" was a great laugh, but all for the wrong reasons.. the Irish presenter who kept getting names wrong, and fluffing his cues.. I think I can even still remember the result!!

 

"In reverse order:

 

Third- Otto Wessel;

Second- Sid Meads;

First- Jan van Schendel.."

 

Or was it the other way round? Oh, how we laughed..

 

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[David C]

I seem to remember Gareth Edwards, the welsh rugby player was in the fishing race as well.

[DavyR]

David C:

I seem to remember Gareth Edwards, the welsh rugby player was in the fishing race as well.

Terry Eustace was also a regular (both series), but I think he was a bit embarrassed about it...

[butiaboy]

why are the only angling programmes on satalite why are there there none on terrestriel tv ?

[RUDD]

butiaboy:

why are the only angling programmes on satalite why are there there none on terrestriel tv ?

The Beeb are antis in disguise and the commercials (no pun intended) will only put on reality TV shows or soaps.

[Colin Brett]

Also in the Fishing Race for the "Golden Maggot" Trophy were the "fiesty" Clive Gammon and John Darling.

I don't remember Terry Eustace though.

 

As Delia would say "Jim Gibbonson where are you? Come on, where are you? Let's be having you!"

 

Colin

[Dick Dastardly]

Yes I remeber Darling and Gammon now too.Cant remember Terry being in it though or Gareth Edwards.

[Jim Gibbinson]

All the aforementioned were involved in the series (two series of 6 programmes each; on BBC2).

 

The first series was filmed in the UK; the second in Sweden.

 

Most of the fishing was hard work and deadly serious, but there were a couple of lighthearted, tongue-in-cheek elements (eg the UK record piranha!)

 

Highlight for me was fly-fishing for wild brown trout and grayling on a drop-dead gorgeous, powerful river in Lapland. Wonderful. Best of all, while in Lapland (200 miles north of the arctic circle) we saw the aurora borealis (northern lights) - an absolutely mind-numbing, wonderful experience.

 

It was back in the 70's; can't remember the precise date.

 

Sadly, neither Ian Gillespie or John Darling are still with us - Ian died of a heart attack a year or two after the second series was made; John died of cancer last year. Both were personal friends.