The Letters of Reverend E C Alston
Part 8 – November 8th 1975
In nearly all ways this letter speaks for itself. Buller’s “The Domesday Book of...
The Letters of Reverend E C Alston
Part 7 – April to November 1975
After the festive period has been and gone, I felt a quick...
Passion for (Winter) Barbel
There are so many of us who would agree that barbel are just so addictive and that it is so hard to...
Passion for Barbel
Perhaps this should be better entitled The Barbel That Saved Me. My pike failure on the Wye that I mentioned is neither...
Passion for the Wye… Bill Wiggin MP
I have a great regard for Fish Legal, the pollution fighting arm of the Angling Trust. Yesterday they sent all members a...
Lost Fishing Letters
It has long occurred to me that often when guiding, the anglers with me are more interested in hearing my stories from...
Tale of Two Pike
Over the past week great mate Pingers had a very large pike on a two pound dead trout, fished on a drop-off,...
The Letters of Reverend E C Alston
Part 6 – The 1973 Letters
I have to admit that deciphering Alston’s handwriting does not get easier, and...
Redditch Tackle Fair – Further Thoughts
I’m delighted there has been some reaction to the pieces both I and John Stephenson have written on last week’s tackle show,...
Tackle Shed Treasures – Charr Pots
A very dear friend gave me a strange dish a few weeks back, something I guessed had once been used as a...
