Half – Time & Bare Spools
ja ah, that road to wales, beetroot 66. all that’s missing from round here is that iron bridge…and maybe the wye going under it. but it’s october brings wales and normandy into line, like the final eclipse, when the moon’s like that dace in your hand, when we wish we’d all been taught by clive [...]
Maggots as Fishing Baits cont’d
18 October 2007 // Caught By...
jeff on the subject of maggot vending machines, the anglers’ space-ship, a life saver. i am putting together a national map of their former whereabouts. important government work etc. official secrets act. the manufacturer’s name for them was ‘rotomatic’. they were launched in the sixties and promoted by sid james who put maggots in barbara [...]
Bridge Over The River Wye
dp to the far off shire, over the severn bridge and through the brecon beacons to builth for the angling writers weekend. super furries ‘mountain people’ on the stereo. memories and mushrooms everywhere, the unicorn’s caravan over the next ridge. rumours of bob’s brother and wild carp at llandrindod. dual language signs, dark skies at [...]
The Magical World Of…
“Write something about Shack for Caught By The River,” asked Jeff many moons ago, and out of respect for the site, Jeff and the Head brothers I agreed immediately. Since then, nothing. I’ve been dry. The drought still isn’t over. It’s not Shack, it’s me. I’ve written the piece so many times. In 1995 I [...]
For those who like The Wire and some Gris Gris with their R&B
15 October 2007 // Film/TV //Music
NEW YORK (AP) – David Simon has made the streets of Baltimore famous with gritty television dramas such as “The Wire,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” and “The Corner.” Now he wants to take on the Big Easy. The next series he hopes to produce for HBO is about musicians reconstituting their lives in New [...]
Totally Caught By The River
This “remark” was made by a Gentleman called Stephen Graham, in his book “The Gentle Art Of Tramping” (1923); “As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet – legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens” It [...]
Maggots as Fishing Baits
14 October 2007 // Caught By...
Browsing the web this morning, I came across this. I know that they used to exist but this is a pretty current site (last post 2005). Please let it be true. Mag-It Maggots as Fishing Baits “Show me maggots and I immediately think of fishing bait. A fly, specially bred as the parent of our [...]
Fishing Gazette, 1877
10 October 2007 // Caught By...
jeff this one’s for you. a cutting from the fishing gazette 29th june 1877: ‘the lakes of osterley park, were, by permission of the earl of jersey and the duchess dowager of cleveland netted on tuesday last for the purpose of increasing the stock of carp in the ‘city’ waters – the result of this [...]
Tomb Of The Unknown Angler
ja your photos always peel like churchbells from a far-off shire, pasties and mackeson, “the last of england”. your market town tackle-shops are worth their weight in practical nostalgia. france, for all its backwardness, has managed to lose its high street tackleshops. post-war shame, uprooting all signs of working class culture from the grande rue. [...]
The Creel
dp it is the desolate diana and the scene from the planet of the carps in the photo, they are one and the same. the barren wastes of crown land in the winter stalked by teenage prescription drug asbos in reebok classics with no laces, the original midnight baitrunners. your hat trick of full moons [...]
