 | Barrie Rickards’ Angling – More Food for Thought
Barrie Rickards discusses the death of an old warrior, Walker, big fat pike and close season insults.
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 | Barrie Rickards’ Angling – A couple of Whinges
Barrie Rickards’ discusses EU quotas, angling unity, catching pike, the ******* RSPB, and Fred J Taylor MBE.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – All about Pike
Barrie Rickards’ discusses various topics about pike and pike fishing.
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| Barrie Rickards' Angling – RSPB and East Europeans
Barrie Rickards with more about anglers and the RSPB. They just don’t mix, he says.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Politicians.......
Professor Barrie Rickards’ shares his thoughts on our world of fishing.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Williams Vs ‘Tench’
Professor Barrie Rickards’ comments on the recent Mark Williams/Prof Tench debate, and all without personal insults and childish name-calling.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Barrie Abroad
Professor Barrie Rickards’ visits the luxurious Bedarra Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – In My View
Professor Barrie Rickards’ unique and incisive look at everything fishing.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – News & Views
Professor Barrie Rickards on hair rigging for pike, the EA, drainage, the countryside, pike for the pot, and Ray Webb…
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Comment from the Prof
Professor Barrie Rickards wades in with lots more views on all things angling – including the decline of Irish angling and boilies for pike…
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Decisive Comment
Angling sage Professor Barrie Rickards with a potpourri of angling topics that have been subjected to his incisive opinion…
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Rats, etc!
Professor Barrie Rickards with his unique opinion on all things angling. You may not agree with him but he’ll make you think…
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – July 06
Another searching look at anglers and angling in the past month or so from Professor Barrie Rickards
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – June 06
Professor Barrie Rickards with his incisive view of what’s been happening in angling in recent weeks
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – May
What’s been happening in angling in the past month or so? Professor Barrie Rickards casts his eye over the current angling scene
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – April 06
Professor Barrie Rickards takes his regular look at the current angling scene
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Mixed Bag
Professor Barrie Rickards once again takes a look at the current angling scene and gives his verdict
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Intolerant Bailey
Professor Barrie Rickards on the intolerance of John Bailey, amongst other current angling topics
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Mullet and More
Professor Barrie Rickards covers another multitude of angling topics from mullet to Irish Carp
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Angling Shows and More
Professor Barrie Rickards covers a feast of angling topics with his usual incisive comments
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Coarse Fish on Fly
Professor Barrie Rickards on fishing for coarse fish with fly and lure
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Coarse Fish on Fly
Professor Barrie Rickards on fishing for coarse fish with fly and lure
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Converted Anti’s
Professor Barrie Rickards asks some searching questions about people and angling politics
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Rod Licences and More
Professor Barrie Rickards with a big bag of strong views on all things fishing
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Nile Perch
Professor Barrie Rickards takes a trip to Lake Nasser for the Nile Perch but gets outfished for a change
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – The Blundering Beeb
The BBC is now showing its true colours with the axing of ‘Fish on Five’. How much more proof do we need that the Beeb are anti-angling, asks Professor Barrie Rickards
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Cormorant Stew!
Professor Barrie Rickards turns his nose up at cormorant stew (even though it is a good idea) and then tells us about his trip to Australia and the great white shark that ate a surfer
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Tabloid Pike
Professor Barrie Rickards discusses the ‘unlikely’ stories of monster and savage pike we usually read about in the tabloid press and says in some instances there is some truth in it
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling – Big Fish Lists
Professor Barrie Rickards discusses eel netting, big fish lists, seeking personal bests, and has a whinge at the over-use of ‘inappropriate’ words…….
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling - The Chattering Classes
Professor Barrie Rickards reveals what he considers to be the greatest danger to angling. Forget the labelled anti-angling groups, the real danger lies in the Chattering Classes
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards with more about the insidious Green Party, the possible dangers of luncheon meat, and nesting birds in the closed season
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards discusses the difference between fishing in Australia and the UK, more about the Green Party, and the ‘beauty’ of swans…..
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards with more about the Chattering Classes, the Green Party, the closed season, and record fish
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards discusses eels, livebaiting, Radio 4, pacemakers in matches, angling in Europe and the Angling Unity Group
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards spreads a wide net this month, commenting on otters, kingfishers, litter bins, pike and pollan, poaching foreigners and asks, ‘is the Co-op anti-angling?
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards wonders what went wrong with the piking this past winter. And he has some hard words to say about the arrogance of John Bailey………
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards on angling unification, Keith Arthur, Mike Heylin, Peter Collins, pheasants, eels, and other such matters where angling is involved
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards takes his usual in-depth look at the political and practical angling scene and offers his always interesting comments
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
More splits within angling and yet another organisation on the horizon. A resurrection of the National Anglers’ Council? “Please God, no!” pleads Professor Barrie Rickards
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards with another deep and defining look at anglers, angling and angling politics
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
What are non-native species? Asks Professor Barrie Rickards who is still deeply involved with angling politics in spite of saying he would give up at 55
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 | Barbed Vs Barbless Hooks
COMMENT from Professor Barrie Rickards with strong opinion about barbless hooks - “Non-anglers who introduce ‘barbless only’ rules, or force them through conservationist bodies, should be shot.”
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards lists some of the arguments in favour of angling that you can use to counter attacks on us
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards sounds off about angling lesson fees, barbless hooks, the NAA, Matt Hayes and Bob Roberts – all in the nicest possible way of course
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards has some strong words to say about the councils, animal rights, town vs country and killing the catch!
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards has some strong words to say about the Government’s attitude to angling, kippers and brolly poles!
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 | ‘Pain’ Report is Nonsense Says Barrie Rickards
FISHINGmagic’s top academic, Professor Barrie Rickards has his say about the fish and pain issue.
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| Barrie Rickards’ Angling
Professor Barrie Rickards continues his trawl of the nation’s newspapers and magazines and catches a netful of political posturing, amongst other things......
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| A Life In The Game
Barrie Rickards reflects on a half century of fishing.
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| Anglers, And The World Around Us……
More political commentary from one of the UK’s most respected anglers, Cambridgeshire Don and angling author Professor Barrie Rickards.
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| Angling Through Other’s Eyes
Professor Barrie Rickards says it’s the silly season as he takes a look at how our regional and national daily newspapers handle ‘pike eats horse’ type stories.
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| A Mixed Bag – Of Politics
“Let’s face it, politics of any kind is a mixed bag at best, and in angling it could be worse than elsewhere, with personalities giving it a very heady mix.” Says Barrie Rickards
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| Contentious Issues About Angling
“In this article I want to discuss two or three issues that cause hand-wringing, raised hackles and even despair at times,” says Barrie Rickards.
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 | What YOU Can Do For Angling
Barrie Rickards says that anglers are quietly regrouping, but there is so much more we can do if only we got off our backsides and actually did it.
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| Revealing My Blank Account
"Surely all this is better than watching TV and drinking beer………” Muses Barrie Rickards.
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| Angling In The Real World
Barrie Rickards fires both barrels at anti-anglers, keepnets, two-tone fish, zander culls, the river close season and the RSPB and then shoots once more from the hip – at us, and says, GET REAL!
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| Putting the Record Straight
Just to put the record straight, and to perhaps put a stop to some of the wild speculation that is rife on some other web sites, this is what Barrie Rickards himself has to say about his resignation from the Pike Angler’s Club.
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| Brown Trout’s Lot Improving
Less slime and fertilisers, and more dippers, point to an improvement in Lake District brown trout.
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 | The Rivers’ Close Season
‘To be or not to be?’ Asks Barrie Rickards, who adheres to the old close season because he wants to, but cannot rationalise it because, he says, it cannot be rationalised.
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