Recent content by John Hepworth

You talking about my good lady :mad: You don't get many to the stone there :) I still remember our conversation on the road by the Wensum, September 2006 :mad::mad: I do wish you hadn't edited the text Chris :)

Steady on Albert, too much excitement :) Hope your keeping well. RE: Tony Blair. In a way he being PM could be blamed on my wife. A little known fact is that at the first Sedgefield CLP selection meeting Tony Blair didn't even get short listed for the seat. He didn't even attend the meeting...

Ive just been listening to Mark Everard talking about dace, the Wear record and that how they are a species introduced to the river because they are not normally found this far north. Wrong! Dace are indigenous to the rivers Tyne, Wear and Tees. Talking to the old Durham anglers when I first...

Its about time those responsible, and eager to take the big bonuses, started receiving prison sentences for their crimes. Profit before principles

New Specialist Angling Sections on Angling Trust Website http//www.anglingtrust.net/page.asp?section=713&sectionTitle=Specialist+Coarse+Angling"]HERE Many of us like to pursue a particular species of fish, and to become experts in the techniques required to catch them, as well as targeting the...

Nice understated web site, Chris.

Dozed off, poor soul was probably tired out with all the late sittings. Whoops I forgot, that's where they do do their sleeping. I wonder whether the MP's ever thought about buying a rod licence, and would that go down on the expenses too?

You'd think the Rivers Trusts would be on our side wouldn't you, sadly not the Wear Rivers Trust A recent stocking of the Wear (with coarse fish) was actually objected to by the WRT, thankfully not successfully. At the very next EA Northumbrian Fisheries Forum meeting I asked its delegate just...

On some sections of the Wear we have all of the above, plus to-wards the evening we have the ****ing sea trout anglers come wading through your swim. Having said that I never have a problem with the game anglers on the club waters where I am membership secretary ;) Apart for one guy who said...

Peter Stone wrote of his old dad doing the same thing, apparently it accounted for some very big chub, and eels. Re PB's mention of salmon, sadly the only way the get any reaction from the EA up't north is to report any incident as 'snatching' then they move like 'stuff' off a shovel

I used to travel up to the Tweed sometimes three days a week when the big dace were there. During that time we never weighed individual fish and I'm pretty sure there would have been a record fish overlooked and we only ever took the smaller fish back to the Wear ;)

Couldn't afford yours at the time Paul :) although you'll probably not remember now, I did send you a Dave Thompson 'JB Avon Supreme' (I think) to have a quiver built in. sadly the Post Office managed to crush the but section.

Haven't used my JW Avon for over 20 years. A b.a. rod. Your friend at Masterline wouldn't have been Bruce, Paul?

Nice fish, George. Could have migrated from the Severn, or at least its parents will have ;) Interestingly we are starting to get a few Scottish lads join my club to fish the Wear. English barbel in Scottish rivers, probably a fair exchange for all those Scottish dace/roach that ended up in...

Obviously Kevin didn't take the order details then ;)