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This is a dedicated thread for discussing article: Heroes and Villains...
Exellent Mr Perkins, Exellent, and what catogory is my good self placed in?
Exellent Mr Perkins, Exellent, and what catogory is my good self placed in?
Finally, an ommision from the list is Jeremy Wade.
Jeremy's series "Jungle Hooks: India" was due to come out a few months after I went to India Mahseer fishing. I'd been reading "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" before I went, for inspiration and loved it. I contacted Jeremy a couple of weeks before the "Go Fishing" show that year (he was on the SAA stand, I think) and said to call by if I was passing and he'd be happy to talk. Fair play to him too, we sat and talked for the best part of 2 hours! He relayed tales of his vast experience in India to me and then sat there and listened to me enthusiastically recount tales of my tiny amount of experience in India to him! He is a genuinely interesting, approachable, friendly guy who is massively into his fishing. I think on some of his shows he's had to slightly dumb-down (went he was in India, he acted as if he knew nothing about what was in those rivers, when in reality, he and Boote were once THE authorities on the place!) to bring mass-appeal, but the 1-hour shows are generally very entertaining and informative.
TV series aside though, I'd say that both Wade and Paul Boote deserve "Hero" status for everything that went into "...Crazy River". For having the determination to rediscover Mahseer fishing for a new generation, for having the balls to travel up the Congo for months in search of Goliath Tigerfish and then for having the writing skill to articulate these experiences so well into such a compelling, inspiring book.
Nice read Kev, couldn't you have found a few more villains mate? This board is rife with them!