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32 pound Thames Pike!!


Peter Waller

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The welcome note on my phone says, "Here pedunkle pedunkle pedunkle!!"

 

When I go to a water for a recce, I'm looking for somewhere 'pedunkle'

 

If I see someone approaching a water, carrying a holdall, rucksack, folding chair and all manner of gear, I'll probably describe the bloke as being 'pedunkle' looking.

 

If I buy a pick up a new lure that might just do the trick for ol' esox, I'd probably describe it as being 'pedunkle'

 

I can't believe anyone would take offence to my usage of the word. I probably use it dozens of times a week and I don't ever recall anyone confusing the term.

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"I envy not him that eats better meat than I do, nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do. I envy nobody but him, and him only, that catches more fish than I do"

...Izaac Walton...

 

"It looked a really nice swim betwixt weedbed and bank"

...Vagabond...

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Dear Gerry,

 

Part of your post reminds me of a AN thread I wanted try, then I didn't, then I did, then I didn't, concerning "fishing locations" (although that probably won't be its title) where I wanted to air this most controversial issue and the way it effects, or infects, the specialist angling world.

 

Gerry, this is a big subject, so I won't side track this thread (its been side tracked enough my me anyway!!) but apply some spit and polish to a word document I have on file in readiness.

 

Exactly how big is 102400 characters moderators?

 

Big issue, needs airing.

 

Regards,

 

Lee.

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Dear Lee,

 

I started to address some of the stupidity from previous posts and probably got close to two sides of A4. Reread the whole thing and suddenly realised that you'd really need to take it all seriously to respond. I can imagine with your occasional need to remind the floppy hatted barbel brigade of a need to keep it real, you've often reached the same conclusion. The real Anglers Net world as budgie once quite correctly remarked, is in places like Wingham, Timsbury, Lodge Pool, Lower Itchen and all of the other places where we meet and go fishing. What you are in when sitting behind a PC screen, is to a large extent...just ga-ga land.

 

Respectfully yours, until the sound of arse on concrete at the end of the greasy pole, rings out again. As it inevitably will.

 

Gerry

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Dear Gerry,

 

I have indeed reached the same conclusions many times. Wrong ones too!!

 

Many laugh at the internet; But look how many times people keep coming back to Anglers Net? Its infectious. And most of whom say they're not interested carry on lurking.

 

I hear that the Barbel Police are about to disband as they've all started to realise I was right all along!! And I actually own and go fishing in a "floppy hat" of sorts myself. A genuine Australian "Drovers" hat made from leather ("Roo" probably) which is perhaps the best fishing hat I've ever owned. Well, if you discount the wooly one with words across it, "Who The Hell is Steve Pope".

 

Regards,

 

Lee.

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Dear Lee,

 

Since I've started putting the fear of the Almighty into the local barbel population (phew...what an easy fish), I too have acquired a floppy hat. Trout pellets on the Kennet (whoops what a giveaway) do not go well with a skeletal 'Fear no Fish' baseball cap however jaunty the angle. Unfortunately I accidentally sat on it for some considerable time and it has now assumed a sort of inbelievably crumpled as well as floppy appearance. Once when fellow barbellers passed me on the bank they'd say 'caught anyfink mista' Now most just point and laugh, whilst a few sad souls have enquired as where they may purchase such a hat.

 

I remain yours and seriously dishevelled of south london

 

Gerry

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Dear Peter,

 

One can easily imagine huge pike stalking those big bream shoals along the reed beds in your picture. That’s why I like it, a nice footnote in pictorial terms to your posts reminding us all, whatever we fish for, the wonderful watery environments we love so much. Nice one.

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Lee.

 

I am glad that you like the picture Lee, thought that you might have recognised it!

 

Yes, it does look 'pedunkle', but it actually accompanied a delightful piece on rudd fishing. Rudd fishing circa Crabtree being a feature of the Broads, alas, no more. Venables was not a great artist, but sure as heck he was able to capture the very essence of 'real' angling like no other artist before or since.

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Hey, Lee man. The cloud mass in the top-left of Peter's sig photo looks like a squid-type thing. It's like, wow, yeah?

 

Er...like far out and that.

And on the eighth day God created carp fishing...and he saw that it was pukka.

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Best to say.

Kennet, Loddon, Thames etc. and leave it at that if possible.

 

Lee, I actually took out two policemen from Essex barbel fishing last Wednesday.

Great guys and we had a real hoot about PC, especially the decision of the Thames Valley and Met police not to allow any white intakes for another 5 years until "targets" are met. Seems fair to me.

 

They caught barbel as well up to 13.1. Now they really were the barbel police.

 

ps. Boat bought and I'm heading towards the Hook! It's nearly Xmas and those Peduncles will be in big demand now Eastern Europe starts at Dover. ---- sorry Pickerels.

 

Graham

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Neeeeeewt!

 

Elliot Minor and Peter the elder are dee-librutly abusing the P' word! I'm feeling all kinds of oppressed and I may need counseling.

 

Oh yes. ;)

And on the eighth day God created carp fishing...and he saw that it was pukka.

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Hello Budgie. Heard you left those pussys (is that allowed?) alone and back to P's.

 

IMHO (yeah!) The only major change to the Thames over the past 20 years is the sudden return of the large numbers of silver fish over the past 2 seasons. Anyone from the Soho Loop area or Kingston will tell you that 20 years ago 50lb bags of roach and dace were common...if you could get past the bleak!

 

There always have been and always will be large shoals of very large bream present. Perch disappeared as elsewhere due to that disease and were the first to reappear in good size 5-6 years ago.

 

Pike found places to live away from boats and have been growing in size to the pair of 30lbers I saw caught a couple of years ago.

 

Barbel have always been in large numbers in the Thames, just reading books like "The River Prince" will confirm that. The river did doubles a hundred years ago, just that spun gut wasn't very good at catching them...

 

Carp were not that prevalent, but some people like to add them to rivers and it has held a good head of 30's for some seasons now.

 

No, its just a cyclic thing, probably enhanced till the predators increase, they eat the fry, the fry disappear, the predators reduce, the fry grow etc........etc.........

 

Graham.

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