TUESDAY29th February 2000

We tend to proceed conservatively, bound by norms, and received wisdoms. Progress sometimes requires that those received wisdoms be set aside for a while, to allow in the ravings of the lateral thinker, the loose cannon, or the seeming lunatic. It may be that Iím all of the above, but I ask you to read…

In fact theres probably little doubt that the very best pike fishing in the entire world is to be found along the fringes of the Baltic sea. I, myself, have witnessed the capture of one forty-seven pound fish. Ive lost a fish that was at least seven or eight pounds larger. Ive either seen or…

Well, I didn’t have a chance to evaluate the first three, but I’ve got my mind right about the last of them now. I learned, for instance, that last April, when we were freezing our tails off here in England, it was 30° in Sweden – that’s about 86° in proper Fahrenheit weights and measures….

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Last Saturday I fished the match at Bewdley and when I drew peg 115, the pipe swim, I really fancied my chances of a big weight. I won off this peg on the first midweek match of the season with sixty-one pounds of barbel; I’ve had a successful magazine feature off it and done some…

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