Fish Tales on The Radio
Radio 4, Saturday 5th April at 5.45am Radio 4 is re running CY’s “Fish Tale” series, starting this Saturday with the “Carp fishing with Paul Whitehouse” episode. There were four made in total and if memory serves, the ones to come are, Perch fishing with Tom Fort (whose latest book “Downstream” has just been published), [...]
Rhubarb
29 March 2008 // Food and Drink
Rhubarb Upside-Down Cake The best rhubarb to use for this cake is early forced rhubarb for it’s sweet, fragrant flavour and also for it’s incredible, vibrant pink colour. Forced rhubarb is just coming to the end of its season (I know, sorry, outdoor is now available) and in this country is mostly grown in the [...]
Rachel Unthank & The Winterset
Caught By The River faves (well, mine anyway – JB)… “Music as tough as it is gentle, as ancient as it is modern, and as coldly desolate as it is achingly intimate.. easily more contemporary and stylish than boys in skinny trousers holding electric guitars like it’s 1969…They might not end us being the best-selling [...]
Pleasures Of March
aka what dipped our floats this month Tench, 6lb 8ozs, Osterley Park, Sunday 9th March Shirley Collins article in Mojo Gavin & Stacey (very sweet & very funny) Bo Diddley “I’m A Man” – The Chess Masters 1955 – 1958 (Hip O Select) ‘Theme Time Radio Hour’ with your host Bob Dylan (Ace Records) The [...]
Rob Bailey…
…we like your art… Rob Bailey is one of the most exciting poster designers in Manchester. He had produced an array of brilliant work for Licktronica – Common’s electronic/experimental night. Common (39 – 41 Edge Street, Manchester 4) is currently hosting an exhibition of Rob’s designs, including a wall mural. Check it out, it’s amazing. [...]
Gorsey Lane, Hightown
Last bank holiday, we escaped the traffic by meandering down Gorsey Lane hoping then to drive into Sandy Lane and eventually reach Hightown. However, the lane eventually petered out even though the OS Map would lead you to believe otherwise. It was though the local populace had let the trees and bushes grow over the [...]
Chris Yates chats to Kevin Parr about carp, silver tourists and rocket powered boats.
Taken from the archives of The Idler Photographer, author, editor of Waterlog magazine, but foremost a fisherman, Chris Yates has been described in angling circles as a “legend in his own lunchtime”, not least after the capture of a British record carp some twenty years ago, but his enigmatic and private nature has confused many, [...]
Pike Fishing On Lake Windermere Part 2
More from Andrew’s the Lake District adventure; I’d love to be able to describe exactly what happened and how I skilfully played the fish, but it’s a blur. Initially relief that I’d not missed the run, but panic that I’d not set the hook properly. A flurry of reeling and the knowledge that a fish [...]
Pike Fishing On Lake Windermere Part 1
here’s the first part of a Lake District adventure, that Andrew took back in February; I’ve been meaning to go fishing with my friend Rich for a few years now. Fishing for me has usually been a fair weather sport. Lazily watching a float on an estate lake type of affair, the vague dream of [...]
The Lost Estate Lakes.
Andrew & I were left devastated this week when we found out that our favorite fishing spot had closed it’s doors to anglers. That really isn’t an understatement, this place was special. We have had some great and memorable times there. We’ve caught big fish, but we’ve seen bigger. We’ve caught sod all and it hasn’t [...]
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