hi all from fm can anyone tell me if woldale and/or wood pool are still about. as just very interested for a possible project in the pipeline thankyou.
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 Where are they supposed to be??
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 not sure creaky, I have BB books, wasnt wood pool beachmere mate? Woldale was Fred Js water thouigh, I think thats still around
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thanks i think so .very limited info i cant find any thing i would love to see them, when i went to redmire i was so choked up with that strange atmosphere that redmire has, that i just needed to find all these old famous haunts .
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I believe Woldale lake is somewhere in Lincolnshire, perhaps near Louth. There's a photo of it in the second edition of Richard Walker's "Stillwater Angling". If Wood Pool is Beechmere then it still exists, as I remember reading an article by an angler who fished it about 10 years ago. He mentioned its connection with BB's "Confessions of a carp fisher". I understand it's in Devon.
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ah yes, I think I remeber, beechmere was in confessions, wood pool is a different lake
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 Woldale ? I thought he was just a bloke who posted on here a bit.... got a whole Dale named after him ???? Blimey. More seriously, which BB books, what's the titles ? I have read some over the years but would like to read some more. Plus also anyone with any books by G. P. R. Balfour Kinnear - dying to read Torridge Fishery if I can ever lay my hands.
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Woldale gets a big mention in the Walker/Ingham drop me a line
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Wood pool is, according to the forward in BB`s book is somewhere in Northampton. The copy I have is the Medlar press version and includes a map of the water,but not it`s location
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Medlar have reissued most of the early stuff http://www.medlarpress.com/index.php?if=list&pc=2&page=3
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'The Little Grey Men....' God I read and re-read that book when I was five or six, over and over. And 'Down the Bright Stream'. Looking back those books may well be what sparked my fascination with water, rivers and fishing (in a family with nary a fisherman ever before).
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THIS IS WHAT FISING IS ALL ABOUT FOR ME ,AS THERE IS STILL SOME OLD SECRET LAKES THAT COULD TAKE U BACK TO A MORE SIMPLE TIME IN ARE FISHING LIFE . IM GLAD THERE IS STILL SOME MYSTERY LEFT IN ANGLING.
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 Woldale Lake (Benniworth Haven)is still there to be seen. I visited it early in the season hoping to get a view of an angler, but to no avail. I tried the Casterline Louth, to see if Peter knew who owned it, he wasn't certain, but thought Rod Hutchinson had some involvement in it. It's big old estate lake,stream fed and set in woodland, it doesn't look very deep, and is quite weeded,there were no signs of fish, and come to that none of water fowl either!
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hi fred u lucky fella did it have a strange atmosphere like u were not on your own
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 Why who else is there?
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I wasn't on my own, the Boss was breathing down my kneck and, that's always a strange atmosphere!
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