The Traditional Fisherman's Forum

WildCarpFisher. wrote:Snape. I'm in one also but I can take a guest from time to time. It's nice to share something like that with others, if it's in your nature to do so?

Sadly I'm not one of the fortunate few....

Snape wrote:Jade lake was a GSC lake in the past when it was wild and little fished and the GSC shared it with a 'modern' syndicate.
Sadly a lot of the more interesting 'wild' areas were opened up to allow access and erection of bivvys and casting with 13' rods.
Now it is a 'bivvy boy' only syndicate and the GSC have nothing more to do with it.
Shame....

That's such sad news. I came across this lake totally by accident when I got lost on my way home from a fishing trip to Hampshire in the late 70s. I wandered round the lake then and I dreamed of fishing there for years until the memory slowly faded. Then I read The Secret Carp & watched Caught in Time and couldn't believe it was the same lake. So beautiful and so untamed. Such a shame that money probably has done it no good at all it was such a quiet and tranquil place even though it was right beside a road. Incidentally I never got to wet a line there

Wasn't the GSC a syndicate

ATB Macko

I believe the GSC were a group of friends that used to meet and it was not really a club as such.

Trevor

Still exists, I received this letter February this year.