Walker was in contact with Don Leney of the Surrey Trout Farm, Haslemere.
He got Don to send him a copy of virtually every invoice for the stockings undertaken by the STF in the 30s and 40s. Redmire was stocked with 50 carp about 8 inches long in 1934. The owner had a problem with weed and Leney suggested a few carp might help to keep the weed down.
Redmire was also stocked with trout in the 30s - Leney again!
Walker spent a lot of time, expecially with BB and Maurice Ingham contacting the receptors of the "Leney Strain" of common and mirror carp as they came to be known.
I fished, with Tag Barnes, a Yorkshire lake near Pateley Bridge that was stocked with Leney fish. On the one occasion in 1965 using bread flake I caught a 9 lbs 15oz mirror which was the third largest carp taken in Yorkshire that year.
The Leney fish in actual fact were not British. Most of them came from the "Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappje" in Arnhem - Holland.
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The man was talented as a writer and a communicator, this is witnessed by his thousands of contributions to Angling Times and other journals of the day. He was a thinker, had to be, dreaming up all that stuff to challenge his and other people's minds for all that time. Most of all, he could apply his thoughts to his fishing and through them become more successful as an angler regardless of whether he always caught the biggest fish
As Jeff says, Walker was a great communicator. He, as a coarse fisherman, was also an intellectual, something that was rare to find in the field of coarse angling. I hope that doesn't sound like I'm making Walker out to be a snob, as he was not like this at all. In fact Walker baulked at the terms "game" and "coarse".
Because of who he was, he elevated coarse angling, taking it out of the "cloth cap, spittoon and whippet" image that many game anglers gave to this part of our sport.
