Fifty years ago

Redmire

A legendary water ... a name that tingled the spine of any Carp Angler of our generation, set the hairs a'janglin' on the back of your neck. Shivered yer timbers? Okay, enough of these badly worded mangled sayings. 

The cover of a book that I once owned ... the history of Redmire Pool 

Photos thanks to Lockie ... 

I took photos but over the years lost them and they have still never turned up. 

Donald Leney Polish carp 1934 - few Carp waters ... legend/monsters RW 44 1952 CY 51 in 1981 and bigger apparently seen. 

Run as a commercial fishery - the death of ??? money ruins most things. 

Les Bamford brummie Optonic sooper duper tuner wizard 

I hear it was drained in modern times (2019?) the progeny of those old Leney stocking ... fifty returned.

The actual years would be lost to me now but as I recall it Geoff thought it might be an idea to go for a few nights? Me, him and Lockie. Quite where my brain would be at this time where the fishing was concerned, well, again I can't recall. The way my memory worked originally was that I packed up fishing in 1989/90, sold my gear fairly quickly and moved on to other things? But seeing as the date was properly logged on Lockies tickets (it was him that booked it I'm told) was at a far later date than I recall and the fact that I still had a bivvy and my Maddock's bed chair (again with photographic evidence as actual proof rather than a mouldy old out of date brain to rely on)  really throws the cat amongst the tigers where all of this is concerned. 

In time (by now a non angler) I decided to go, as the company was top hole as well as being able to set my eyes and boots into the soft mud of the banks of Redmire, a place of myth and legend. 

Geoff ... geoff ... GEOFF!!! Crickey, I am famous! 

weasel with mouse dinner

empty the loo competition.