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Greatest Angler Of All Time

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  1. 1. who is the greatest angler of all time

    • John Wilson
      14
    • Dick Walker
      34
    • Ivan Marks
      13
    • Matt Hayes
      7
    • Bob Nudd
      11
    • Chris Yates
      8
    • Billy Lane
      2
    • Bernard Venables
      6
    • Dick Clegg
      1
    • Benny Ashurst
      0

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Elton Member

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I was just looking for a bit of info regarding JW and stumbled across this old thread, so decided to bump it back up to see if opinions have changed at all...

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I can not see Mr Crabtree in the list! why?

Bump :P

Eating wild caught fish is good for my health, reduces food miles and keeps me fit trying to catch them........it's my choice to do it, not yours to stop me!

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izaak walton still ain't on the list, the man who immortalised the following passage in 1676. It's called 'possessing quietness' :-

 

"No life, my honest scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant as the life of a well governed angler; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, the statesman in preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us"

 

After Izaak, close second would be Jeremy Paxman, avid angler, statesman and general awkward bugger who's not afraid to ask difficult questions.

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never try and teach a pig to sing .... it wastes your time and it annoys the pig

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John S Member

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The greatest angler of all time? The answer's obvious, ME :bleh:

John S

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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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davedave Member

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I'm really surprised nobody has said Jan Porter, to me probably the best angler, a good all rounder who's not cocky and doesn't act up for the cameras like Matt Hayes. Second favourite is Mick Brown.

 

Worst anglers are Alex Bones and Danny Fairbrass!

As famous fisherman John Gierach once said "I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't."

 

 

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And where was Mr. Crabtree <_<

 

 

Bernard venables

"Some people hear their inner voices with such clarity that they live by what they hear, such people go crazy, but they become legends"
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