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Steve Partner: Cricket fan tried to tell me angling is dull

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Steve Partner, 20 August 2010 16:00

I got stuck chatting to a cricket bore down the pub last weekend who said that he couldn’t comprehend what so many of us love about angling. “It’s so dull,” this Hooray Henry claimed, “all that sitting around and waiting. Nothing ever seems to happen. Where is the fun,” he dismissively concluded, “in that?” I nearly spat my beer out. ...

 

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Steve Partner: Cricket fan tried to tell me angling is dull

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Steve Partner,
20 August 2010 16:00

I got stuck chatting to a cricket bore down the pub last weekend who said that he couldn’t comprehend what so many of us love about angling. “It’s so dull,” this Hooray Henry claimed, “all that sitting around and waiting. Nothing ever seems to happen. Where is the fun,” he dismissively concluded, “in that?” I nearly spat my beer out. ...

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Death of record grayling was simply an accident

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Steve Partner, 13 August 2010 15:30

What would you have done if you had just landed a potentially record-breaking fish, only for it to die in your hands? Just ponder that question for a second or two. Really think about it. Because I reckon when you do you’ll come to a different conclusion to all those who have been quick to hammer Dave Williams, the angler ...

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Steve Partner: Angling doesn't need this kind of arrogance

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Steve Partner, 06 August 2010 16:00

If you’d never heard of the Wildlife and Countryside Link then you were in good company. I hadn’t either. Not until last week. Not until it decided to stick its unwanted beak into angling with two of the most ill-thought-out and potentially ruinous proposals I’ve ever had the misfortune to read. Now I can’t get the bloody Wildlife and Countryside ...

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Steve Partner: You can call it fishing, but I call it cheating

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Steve Partner, 30 July 2010 16:00

Bait boats. God awful things, aren’t they? Expensive, intrusive and entirely superfluous, they really are the epitome of ostentatious and unnecessary bling. If you haven’t got the accuracy or confidence to hit the required spot, go practice. Spending a small fortune on a remote-controlled floating Batmobile is not the answer ¬ in fact, it’s tantamount to cheating. If I had ...

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8,000lb of carp in a day? I'd be so bored!

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Steve Partner, 23 July 2010 16:00

Just as I remember in crystal clear detail my first-ever fish, I can recall with equal ease the minutiae  of the  first ‘proper’ one too. June 20, 1987, Frensham Great Pond. Tench, 6lb 8oz. Having spent my formative years on the local canal, that fish was a giant, a beast, a creature of almost unbelievable proportions. To a boy who ...

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Want to be a rich and famous angler? Well you best forget it!

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Steve Partner, 16 July 2010 16:00

Let me make one thing clear right from the start - I haven’t written this piece to puncture dreams or trash life-long ambitions. I’ve written it because there are a growing number of people who clearly need a reality check - people like Matt Hamilton, a student from Woking in Surrey, who wrote to AT this week asking how he could become ...

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Too many carp in fisheries could lead to a dark summer

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Steve Partner, 09 July 2010 15:30

Question: How do we categorically, definitely and absolutely know that Britain’s commercials have too many fish in them? Answer: When one of the UK’s first – and biggest – fisheries decides to shut one of its lakes for a couple of months to give the stock a break. Never has the inference been more clear. Never has it, unwittingly or ...

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The Sun's piranha story was a complete fairytale

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Steve Partner, 02 July 2010 16:00

The Sun. The good old currant bun. Home of page three, puns and some of the most humorous – and memorable – headlines in history. ‘Gotcha’, ‘Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster’, ‘Up Yours Delors’ and, my personal No1, ‘It’s Paddy Pantsdown’ being among the more quotable. Yes, our favourite daily newspaper – read by 2.9 million – is the populist ...

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Rivers are open again, but they look doomed

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Steve Partner, 25 June 2010 16:30

Who, I was left to wonder again this week, will the next generation of anglers end up blaming? Our various governing bodies? The different incarnations of the Environment Agency? The Government? Us, even? Some-one must be at fault for letting it happen. Someone must be responsible for allowing our rivers to slowly die. If, for some  reason, you think that ...

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The death of Heather the leather - Get a grip lads !

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Steve Partner, 17 June 2010 12:47

Regular readers of this column are going to start thinking I’m anti carp fishing. Which I’m not. I love fishing for them, especially in the summer and especially off the top. Carping might not be my idea of angling nirvana, but I can think of worse things you can do with a rod. Like fly fishing. But I digress... No, ...

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