| PROFESSOR BARRIE RICKARDS | |
He is author of several fishing books, including the long awaited ‘Richard Walker – Biography of an Angling Legend’. He has been an angling writer in newspapers and magazines for nigh on four decades. Barrie takes a keen interest in angling politics. Away from angling Barrie is a Professor in Palaeontology at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Emmanuel College and a curator of the Sedgwick Museum of Geology. |
Thanks to all at FishingMagicI would like to begin this piece with the warmest words of thank you to all those kind people who sent me best wishes on my 70th birthday recently, via FishingMagic. Because I am not a computer person at all I don’t see things like this unless someone like Colin Brett or Graham Marsden alerts me to them, hence my delayed thanks to you all. It was greatly appreciated. Several people mentioned my illness recently. I hesitate to enlarge on this – after all who is interested? But there is a little in it of angling impact, so I will say a word or two. Last winter, I noticed I was having difficulty playing in big pike. (Don’t we all I hear you say!). In my case my hands and arms were hurting badly. At the end of December I was playing in a big fish and half way through the battle I was simply unable to hold the rod anymore, and the pain was so great. So I clasped the rod to my chest, backed into the field, dropped the rod, took off the pick up and then hand-lined the fish in. When you hand-line a fish they often stop fighting, and this one popped into the net (which was already in place) like a lamb, all 25  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission, which supports our community.
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