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WANDLE
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 D Hopkins |
WANDLE |
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Posts: 90 (13/06/07 15:19) |
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wayne laws |
good luck | ||
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Posts: 92 (17/06/07 21:28) |
thanks i think your message paid off ne pb on first session only two hours at that!!
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Andy Frances |
MHPAC | ||
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Posts: 2681 (21/06/07 11:34)
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Posted on behalf of Steve Dedman:
River Wandle I write to inform you that it is now possible to fish the stretch of the River Wandle that runs through Morden Hall Park in South London. Previously this prolific stretch of river that runs through National Trust property was regularly fished illegally, mainly due to the angling press reporting it to be free fishing, causing the NT lots of problems. However, they have now agreed that members of the newly formed Morden Hall Park Angling Club are allowed to fish the water, the total membership is limited to 150. It was a stipulation of the NT that the club be formed for the benefit of local anglers and so full members are required to live within a three mile radius of Morden Hall. There were also 30 associate memberships available for those living outside the three mile radius and a limited number of day tickets are available from local tackle dealer 'outside pursuits'. Regards Steve Dedman Membership Secretary MHPAC |
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Paul Boote |
Great stuff - | ||
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Posts: 4484 (21/06/07 13:06) |
the N.T.'s "for local people" stipulation. Good luck to the new club, I hope that it gets lots of Londoners (youngsters especially) into fishing. I saw on BBC1 TV London News just now that Thames 21 and the Parliamentary Angling Group led my Martin Salter MP plus some local kids were doing a publicity "fish" for the cameras at Docklands this morning - again, to encourage Londoners to try Angling. Can only be good for our pastime and for waters in the South East: if people use and value the latter, they won't be allowed to "go" quite so easily in the future.
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mv |
mhpac | ||
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Posts: 65 (21/06/07 16:58) |
hi i live near mhp and would love some info about this club-please anyone with info give me a e mail
cheers MV |
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jasonspeck(d) |
Re: mhpac | ||
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Posts: 62 (21/06/07 17:29) |
MV,
Put a call into the Park's Office at MHP.They should set you straight. |
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johnbarbus |
Re: mhpac | ||
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Posts: 115 (22/06/07 06:32) |
try the fishing tackle shop in mitcham cheers john
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isisalar |
Re: mhpac | ||
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Posts: 126 (22/06/07 19:19) |
i viewed the wandle today for the first time today.what a wonderfull looking river!can anyone tell me if there is any fishing in the park upstream from the southill park shopping centre
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blackstrat |
Re: mhpac | ||
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Posts: 1 (23/06/07 21:33) |
To obtain an application form email: mordenhallpark.ac@hotmail.co.uk
There are very few adult places remaining, although there are several junior places available. |
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mv |
Re: mhpac | ||
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Posts: 65 (24/06/07 07:46) |
thanks for the info lads
cheers mv |
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wayne laws |
wandle | ||
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Posts: 92 (24/06/07 13:56) |
with the bit of rain all day going to give the wandle a go this evening should have coloured up more that this morning looking good.
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Theo |
Ah, Mr Boote... | ||
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Posts: 58 (28/06/07 16:15) |
... thrilled to see you've finally woken up and smelled the Wandle coffee. Knew you couldn't keep up that useless facade of twisted bitterdom forever, eh?
p081.ezboard.com/NUBA/fba...=197.topic Yes, the new Morden Hall Park Angling Club is superbly exciting for everyone involved with the Wandle, and I'd like to thank the National Trust for their faith in taking on our motley crew. Steve, Wayne - even Paul, you self-despising libellous Old Carthusian, you - see y'all on the riverbank. If I don't smash a rod on a Morden Hall barbel this season, I'll know I've failed. Tight lines all!! Theo Theo Pike Vice Chairman, the Morden Hall Park Angling Club Trustee, the Wandle Trust Senior Vice President, the Wandle Piscators |
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Paul Boote |
Just seen this: | ||
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Posts: 4484 (28/06/07 20:58) |
Theo
Registered BFW Member Posts: 5 (28/6/07 5:15 pm) Reply Ah, Mr Boote... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... thrilled to see you've finally woken up and smelled the Wandle coffee. Knew you couldn't keep up that useless facade of twisted bitterdom forever, eh? p081.ezboard.com/NUBA/fba...=197.topic Yes, the new Morden Hall Park Angling Club is superbly exciting for everyone involved with the Wandle, and I'd like to thank the National Trust for their faith in taking on our motley crew. Steve, Wayne - even Paul, you self-despising libellous Old Carthusian, you - see y'all on the riverbank. If I don't smash a rod on a Morden Hall barbel this season, I'll know I've failed. Tight lines all!! Theo Theo Pike Vice Chairman, the Morden Hall Park Angling Club Trustee, the Wandle Trust Senior Vice President, the Wandle Piscators My word. True barbel-anglers, a word of advice: Never, ever, trust a poisonous, fly-boy toff like the one above (he's an Old Harrovian, Countryside Alliance type, who's pursued me across the Angling Internet for the past few years). This scarcely fished, well-connected, ever-networking lad invited me to the Wandle Piscators dinner at Morden two or three months ago, then, when I had politely declined, promptly shat all over me (if you can't take the heat "sweetie", or suchlike) on a, for him, no-come-back fly forum. So: yet another interloping, politicking, clunking Terminator on our boards, BFW-ers, wanting to rule OUR world and ourselves, for reasons best known to himself (and to myself, too, but I want NOTHING of it - hence his and his kind's loathing of me). I just GO FISHING, and leave the Theos of this world to power-play with themselves in their long-since lost the plot, sociopathic (that's hatred of people - in our case, decent, "ordinary" people) solitude. If you value your pastime and your angling waters, BFW-ers, you should, too. Give that NUBA gig - National Union of British Anglers - (fronted by another "Wandler") a wide berth, also. Remember an earlier refrain of mine here, fellas - "With friends like these, who need enemies?"? Yup. As ever, I was terrifyingly prescient and absolutely spot on. Wins me "admirers" on a regular basis. |
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Theo |
C'mon Paul... | ||
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Posts: 58 (29/06/07 08:39) |
... what's the problem? Charterhouse not as P-O-S-H as Harrow, then?
 As I recollect it, I invited you to the Wandle Piscators' Dinner out of friendship, respect for your writing, and your clear love of fishing London rivers (actually, well before I'd seen that totally gratuitous and libellous little post of yours in the link above - I only found it about a month ago, and might well not have invited you if I had). You declined, proffering sympathy-inducing family reasons which I won't repeat here. A couple of weeks later, you then turned around and for no apparent reason started attacking me and my river-restoring colleagues in terms rather similar to the above, including publishing my personal email address and the Wands' bank details on a public forum. I still can't work out why you should have done that, but that action and your blatantly defamatory rantings - again, rather like the ones here - may have had something to do with your account being pulled on that board. Do you wish I "loathed" you? In spite of all this, I don't, but I do wish you'd stop sticking stilettos, all over the internet, into our efforts to restore a very battered little river to proper health again, for the benefit of barbel, trout, chub, dace and everything else that swims in it. I don't want to rule the world, I just want to be able to walk out of my front door and go fishing without finding a three-piece suite or a tide of sewage in my favourite stretch of the Wandle. Sometimes that takes a bit of organisation - fifty pairs of hands being better than one, and all that. again.Let's call this quits - once and for all - and just go fishing sometime, as you suggest. My river or yours? I'll bring coffee. Theo PS: back in my rowing days on the Thames and Wear, they did used to call me the Terminator. I'd forgotten that... hmm... maybe I'll re-adopt the nickname? |
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Mole |
Re: C'mon Paul... | ||
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Posts: 2281 (29/06/07 11:57) |
Blimey the Asda cider crew are going to love you.
Anyone actually fishing the river? |
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Theo |
Re: C'mon Paul... | ||
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Posts: 58 (29/06/07 12:45) |
They love us already, Mole. Cleaner river, more fish, better fishing for all... can't argue with that
www.wandletrust.org Agreed - let's get back to the fishing talk. Theo |
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the sheize |
Re: What a load of Bo**ocks | ||
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Posts: 610 (29/06/07 12:57) |
What a load of bo**ocks.
Next |
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kettleon |
Re: What a load of Bo**ocks | ||
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Posts: 88 (29/06/07 15:04) |
hi all
not sure if true or not so please dont take as gospel... but heard on the grapevine that certain stretche(s) were trying to be secured for the sole use of the fluff-chuckin elite tight lines |
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Theo |
Re: What a load of Bo**ocks | ||
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Posts: 58 (29/06/07 15:39) |
No stretches to be reserved for any one method, elite or otherwise, kettleon the plan is a genuinely mixed-species, mixed-method fishery for local people. Fish it how you want just stay within the club rules, and dont eat the fish you catch, or youll start glowing green in the dark, what with all those heavy metals and the Wandles past history.
Naturally there will probably be stretches that respond better to some methods than others, but thats any river for you, isn't it? Theo |
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apsu |
Wandle | ||
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Posts: 118 (29/06/07 16:21) |
Even fly fishing methods do you think Theo?
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Theo |
Wandle | ||
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Posts: 58 (29/06/07 16:39) |
If it works, apsu, why not?
Actually, I'm been reading around and thinking about getting an old 13ft match rod at the moment, loading it up with very fine braided line and reviving the way the old northern spidermen used to fish - maybe a cadbait or two, realistically little tiny spiders I've made for a midge hatch. Probably only good for silver fish - I'd be in trouble if Boris took hold on a little tiny test curve like that - but could be fun, a different form of Czech nymphing or peche au toc. Looking forward to getting out at night with the boys from the shop too, and learning how to catch barbel all ways!! Theo |
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