General
Contains prose to poetry to polemic, experiences, tales both fictional and non-fictional, "how to"s, "how not to"s and related outpourings from the Work Party. These are very broadly classified. As the site grows, we may reclassify them further, or we may not.
Listed below are general articles that don't fit into any particular catagory.
GeneralThey Say 'Never Go Back'
- by Mike on 12/05/10They say 'never go back, you will only be disappointed'..................Mike is back in the UK for a final visit and seeks out old haunts before he returns to France. Unfortunately, all is not as he would wish to find it.
GeneralA Fresh Cast
- by Mike on 04/05/10"I guess it's ironic really; purepiscator.com comes to an end and my employment in the UK comes to an end also". .............in "A Fresh Cast", PurePiscator favourite Mike finally breaks with the UK and contemplates a new life of gallic challenges.
GeneralEarly Days Part Two: Yer Dad's 'Ere
- by James on 15/04/10"Although those early sea trips were my introduction to this fishing life, it wasn't until my first coarse fish were caught, in the summer holidays of the late 1960s, that I was really hooked." In the second part of his early recollections, James learns that disobediecne has severe consequences.......
GeneralGreen Flag
- by Colin on 13/04/10Before 8am I sit in a coffee shop (where have all the caffs gone?) with what passes for breakfast, an ersatz fry-up toastie plus coffee (Italian for coffee? Go to Italy, they have the mutt’s knuts, coffee-wise)..................Colin keeps his angling eye "in" whilst ostensibly out and about, working .
GeneralThe chalkstreams of Norfolk; an occasional series. Part One: The Glaven
- by Danny on 25/03/10"A waft of smoky eel or cod or something from the smokehouse drifted through the car window as I drove through the narrow, right-angled, main street of Cley-Next-The-Sea"....................Danny begins a new series on the chalkstreams of Norfolk, that most unspoilt of English counties. First up is the Glaven.
GeneralTackle Jumble
- by Michael on 13/10/09(published previously on PurePiscator)
Every coarsefisher owns more floats than a lifetime could require; nay, even unto the seventh generation. Michael gets biblical about our ability to accumulate tackle.
GeneralStill Digging for Victory
- by Ian on 17/11/08(published previously on PurePiscator)
Nearly 18 months have passed since I penned the first report on Marmont Mere and its surrounding woodland. At that time, the trees were quite small, the lake was seemingly immature with semi-naked banks and the fish were relatively newly-introduced. What a difference a year and a half can make.
GeneralOn Reflection
- by Ian on 02/03/08(published previously on PurePiscator)
"Fond memory brings the light of other days around me." Sir Thomas More, 1477-1535
It is said that you should not chase a memory in case it has changed for the worse, or is not as you remembered. Well, having written about my first ever fish in a previous article 'The First Time', a family need arose to revisit old haunts, and I could not resist the temptation to include a trip to the scene of my angling initiation.
