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Angler from the 1970's


TerryFarnell

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Ray Wilson I believe No it was Ray Webb as Mark says below , bought and lived in a small van - dunno about a boat

 

There was also a pair who travelled around the UK and Ireland - had a boat known as The Black Pig Fred Wagstaffe and Bob Reynolds. Caught a lot of fish and wrote a lot of articles

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It was Ray Webb who travelled around with Bob Reynolds. Ray Webb did a book on tench fishing with Barrie Rickards. Got a feeling that Bob Reynolds ended up in prison in Ireland.

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Phone, on 18 Apr 2018 - 22:14, said:

All,

 

There was a chap I ran into frequently who came to America, even had his own line of kit (rods mostly). He went by the name "Globetrotter" although for the life of me I can't remember his given name. Hugely likeable sort of guy. Carp only though as I remember. And specimen hunter at that.

 

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Tony Davies-Patrick. I made the mistake of buying one of his books.

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Re Mark's post#12

 

That must have been before or after the Reynolds-Wagstaffe alliance Between them Fred and Bob contributed many articles on their Irish adventures. I remember the situations, but not the order they came in. So my contributions probably apply to some periods in the late 1960s/early 1970s I only met Reynolds once. (when I fished a lake in Northampton wirh Chevin - Billing I think it was called) Webb not at all, but fished with Fred Waggers a few times,again with Ian Howcroft (Chevin)

 

Also before or after the above

 

Fred Wagstaffe and Jim Gibbinson spent a lot of time carp fishing.together - many entertaining articles resulted One hilarious episode concerned Fred's bedchair collapsing at one end and depositing the incumbent into the lake , still in his sleeping bag - as Gibbo put it - "Just like a burial at sea"

 

Fred also had a three-wheeler. Its main function was to get Fred and gear to the waterside as quickly as possible - sometimes the possible verged on the impossible and the three-wheeler was rolled more than once.

 

For some time I was in a correspondence group, including Jim Gibbinson, Fred Wagstaffe, the Late Dave Marlborough, Mike Winter from Devon and one or two more

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World species 471 : UK species 105 : English species 95 .

Certhia's world species - 215

Eclectic "husband and wife combined" world species 501

 

"Nothing matters very much, few things matter at all" - Plato

...only things like fresh bait and cold beer...

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