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So at least four of you fished Crystal Palace boating lake. Saw some kids walking up the hill away from the lake this morning loaded with gear, so its still being fished. Sadly it contains mostly scraps. My first boating lake was Victoria Park in Hackney. Used to spend my time trying to hit pedalos with a ledger weight. In those days it contained a load of small stuff, all changed now apparently, it has the dreaded carp

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Started back in '72 when i was 13 using a pole rig on the winder (didn't have a pole to go with it) just thought i'd try fishing having won a ladybird book on course fishing in a school comp, caught my first Roach and the rest as they say is history.

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argyll:

So at least four of you fished Crystal Palace boating lake. Saw some kids walking up the hill away from the lake this morning loaded with gear, so its still being fished. Sadly it contains mostly scraps.

When I was a lad in the 60s, Crystal Palace boating lake was famous for a very large pike which was nicknamed "Hercules", and which had been netted (annual routine) and which weighed in at 36lb.

 

I saw it once take a duckling, and then the mother, about 20 yards from where I was sat, my jaw dropping..

 

Great days..

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Aged 13 or 14, back in '73/4. Went with two pals and sometimes their uncle, who later gave me one of his cane rods for my birthday (which I still have and occasionally use). We used to cycle to Pickering Park pond in Hull, and sometimes my dad would drive us all to Bakers Pond in Newport. Bakers is still a favourite venue for me, and thankfully hasn't really changed in all those years.

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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