Our 25th Edition, June 16th 2025
The Piscatorial Raconteurs & Friends – ‘being the quiet observations of Gentlemen Anglers‘
Within these pages you will find peace and warm reflection in what we believe is a quiet backwater. Here one can while away time sitting comfortably in a familiar armchair accompanied by a favoured tipple’… continue reading
Keeping An Eye On Proceedings
Tackle Gallery
The gallery has been updated – so a few more gems to unearth.
There are many reasons we enjoy our art of angling, the countryside, nature, of course the fish we angle for & most definitely the tackles – predominantly from a bygone age, & on occasion crafted today, always by hand keeping alive the artisanal traditions of yesteryear.
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This gallery will be updated periodically so make sure you drop in every edition.
Readers Picture – June’s Edition
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“Sunset over water meadows“
Richard Elsden, Spring 2025
This Issue’s Contemplations
The Piscatorial Raconteurs June Miscellany – Paul Adams, David Craine & Carl Hier
The Raconteurs Articles – Pallenpool, Martin James MBE, David Craine, R.B. Traditional, Carl Hier, Paul Huxtable, Jeremy Croxall, & Earthing_The_Current.
June’s Guest – Ruth Craine
June’s Miscellany
Paul Adams, Willow ‘I am not inhibited by my limited stature. Dad frequently recounts the time last year when I found a bear. All three of us were excited with that brief encounter‘ continue reading
Carl Hier, Meeting An Old Friend ‘Times of absence however, had not weakened us. The strength of our relationship was unscathed. That much was clear. Indeed, it had only grown in strength with the passage of time‘ continue reading
David Craine, From Reed Bed To Float Tube & Beyond ‘Having read sometime in the past that the best time to harvest the reed is after the stems have died down, and the best reed for colour was that which had grown beneath the surface of the water‘ continue reading
This Editions Features & Articles
Guest Articles
Ruth Craine
Ruth Craine – Visits International Bomber Command In Lincolnshire ‘Each of the women represented had a story to tell, some quite extraordinary, some tragic. I picked out five of them who I thought were the most interesting. The information about them is taken from the notice boards by the installations’ continue reading
The Raconteurs Articles
Earthing_The_Current, Martin James MBE, David Craine, Carl Hier, Jeremy Croxall, R.B.Traditional, Paul Huxtable & Pallenpool
Paul Huxtable – A Pinch Of Salt ‘These undeniable ties to the sea and the fishing were an inevitable consequence of genetic inheritance. I never knew my paternal grandfather, he had departed this world just after the Second War, but I was to learn that he was clever with his hands (an upholsterer by trade) and in his spare time loved his allotment and fishing the sea’ continue reading
David Craine – Pastures New ‘I gathered my tackles from the van and put on a fleece to keep out the cool breeze. As I was doing so a tractor chugged down the track, the driver stopped and opened the door, saying “You must be David. My boss told me that you would be fishing the ponds’ continue reading
Martin James MBE – Today Is The Start Of A New Coarse Fishing Season ‘Next morning we started again and I soon had a tench. Martin then quizzed me on why I was catching. I said, “Give me your hook” and baited it with two black casters: Martin soon had a tench. I then explained my thinking and experiences from the past. I get fellow anglers often telling me that I am too fussy with my angling but it is not the costly rods reels and so on, but the smaller things in angling which can make the difference’ continue reading
Pallenpool – A Pool Of Tench ‘Settling into a comfortable position I look out over the water; this pool is such a tranquil place, it’s untroubled and uncluttered ways being so far removed from the hustle and bustle of modern life and its cursory entrapments‘ continue reading
Earthing_The_Current – One Last Go ‘I recall a decent roach being hauled out by Dad, he having endured a biteless few hours ‘fishing for big stuff on the bottom’ (as he put it) until the dough-bobbin pinched on the line beyond his rod tip twitched into life. Meanwhile, I delighted myself in swinging bleak after bleak towards my eager hands‘ continue reading
R.B.Traditional – Wandering ‘A kingfisher made its presence known by perching on a dead branch on the far side of the pond, my late mother’s favourite bird. Memories came flowing back of the time I’d taken her to a spot on the river many years ago and we had shared a wonderful hour or so sitting on the bank with a small picnic, watching a pair of these fascinating birds catching fry and taking them back to their nest to feed their young’ continue reading
Jeremy Croxall – The Artful Craft, New Beginnings ‘We shall have the opportunity to read books not yet read and, perhaps, reread old favourites. Plans will be hatched for our fledgling gambit come the 16th; all this feverish activity compresses time and, before we realise, it will seem as though we’ve effected a transtemporal leap to ‘The Glorious 16th‘ continue reading
Carl Hier – The Ways Of Water ‘At such times, quiet backwaters become disfigured with currents and swirls of their own. A tree toppled by floodwater changes the direction of flow and within days becomes an integral part of the river bed as silt and stone builds around it. Shrubs that once stood proudly alongside their vein of water are now submerged, overcome by the river’s new-found demonic power. Shelter for all those alongside and within the river itself can be hard to find at these moments‘ continue reading
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