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Specimen and Specialist Groups

Thats not what i meant Fred, but now you mention it :) Talking of publishing i always thought you had a great book in you, some of the old stories ( i remember the one you told me about the Asbestos on the Docks !!) the old Kent Carping days and the bait thing, yes, i'd have bought that book :)
 
I have actually spent a fair amount of time during the last few years writing a true account of how the HNV bait started and progressed not for publication but just so a true account exists rather than the mistaken (and sometimes deliberately twisted) versions I have read.
 
Excellent. Hope some day you feel it right to publish.
I and many others look forward to that time.

With respect

Mike
 
Thanks for the kind words Mike but I honestly can't see a situation arising when I would publish.I have never felt the urge to suggest to others that my ideas are nearer to being correct than their's my interest has always been to follow up an idea I had forty odd years ago always trying to look for faults in the idea,and despite thinking all those years ago that in two or three years I would have taken it as far as I could I still find things to interest me today.Although I found some of the comments I read about HNV baits very annoying,I bit my tongue and did not reply to them,I wanted to write things down before my memory faded with age and I found doing so was like an antidote for all the misinformation I had seen published.
If it were published I think people would find it boring as it is not meant to be entertainment it is merely a factual account of ideas and what they lead to.Whether or not anyone ever reads it or not the important thing,to me it is enough that it exists.
 
Hi men ,

Fred , you never know , fishing especially has a history . Fish sizes , tackle developments , historic waters , and bait evolution , would be a shame if the story of the road that a lot of us fishing here (and around the world ) followed was not told at some point .

I count myself very lucky , I started fishing for carp in the early 70's , made lots of stuff we take for granted today , and spent hundreds of hours making big mistakes with bait ingrediants :D , history and records are one thing that angling has above other sports/pastimes !.


Hatter
 
Agree with Mark, very well said, Freds developments are part of anglings history and it would be wonderful if they were available to the appropriate people in the future.
 
Specimen Groups are a bit like the very funny BBC series the Detectorists shown recently.

Who can forget at the local meeting the 'finds table' featuring ring pulls dating as far back as 1973:)
 
Mark, those carp in my garden pond turns out one is around 19-20lb and the common is about 23/4 lb:D:D:D trouble is there wont be much fun in trying to hookem lol
 
Single Species groups like any other groups are just a sum of the parts, some improve when people join but can easily improve when members leave ... or visa versa ;)
 
Oh yeah, silly me :) Groups are not really my cup of tea to be honest, was in the Pike Anglers club and the Barbel Catchers many moons ago, but just found myself getting irritated by other people so i left both. It doesn't matter what group it is there is always internal strife to some degree and i can do without it. Some people love to just belong to something however and good luck to them, like all fishing its a very personal pastime and people want differing things from it.
 
Yeah, each to his own and all that .. some groups appear to be in constant turmoil, some people seem to just be in it to disagree ... life's too short, and fishings supposed to be a fun way of getting away from all the stress.
 
Steve Double said:
If there was, John, we'd all know about and all be members!

For reasons I haven't fully worked out, The Tenchfishers are very much brothers-in-arms, sharing information and welcoming fellow members with genuine enthusiasm. And you'll never see a row break out on their forum, either.

Even though their total membership is, I think, only around the 300-400, 100 turned up at their AGM the other week. Any organisation would be proud of that sort of dedicated membership.
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I have to agree, the Tenchfishers is very well run, there are some egos but they do not upset the status quot and nearly everyone gets on. there is a reasonable amount of knowledge exchanged and the mag is good. I was cautious about having been in a few speci groups and the Barbel Catchers, but was pleasantly surprised, also in BASS, which is also well run.
 
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