Ashlea
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Ashlea
Is this forum meant to be Ashlea pool rather than Ashley pool? Or is it a pool I'm not aware of?
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- Mark
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Re: Ashlea
I would like to say that it was a typing error Snape, but as the 'a' is a few keys away from the 'y'….
Well spotted Snape, I'm glad your paying attention.
Well spotted Snape, I'm glad your paying attention.
Mark (Administrator)
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
The most precious places in the English landscape are those secretive corners,
where you find only elder trees, nettles and dreams. (BB - Denys Watkins-Pitchford).
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Re: Ashlea
Top marks for Snape......
Where we going to hide the next one then Mark???
Where we going to hide the next one then Mark???
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Re: Ashlea
Nice articles about Ashlea
http://www.hiltonangling.co.uk/discoverashlea.html
http://www.fishingwarehouse.co.uk/secti ... tegoryid=3
http://www.hiltonangling.co.uk/discoverashlea.html
http://www.fishingwarehouse.co.uk/secti ... tegoryid=3
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Re: Ashlea
What a wonderful read the Hiltonangling topic is, even though I don't carp fish anymore it gives me that buzz of going again, sadly I don't think it will ever happen but thanks for posting such a wonderful story, it really helps you see just what a man Tom Mintram was and how the Ashlea pool time led him to pretty much do the same at Redmire.
Thanks again Snape, a great read
Thanks again Snape, a great read
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Re: Ashlea
I think the Ashlea sections in Hilton's "Quest for Carp" are among the most engaging, and I suppose that's down to Hilton "living the dream," - gaining access to a small, unknown water with huge fish - perhaps to beat the record of the day. Imagine his excitement - especially with those sightings of monster carp among the lilies! He designed his own rod for the purpose, of course, the Ten-Ten - a carbon version of which has been marketed recently by Hilton Angling. I've always fancied that rod, because it's said to have a flicky top with huge reserves of power further down - I suppose a kind of cross between a MK IV and a MK IV SU...?
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Re: Ashlea
Very nice articles on Ashlea, Snape. I very much enjoyed the Hilton one and was quite touched by Mike Willmott's account of the demise of the pools elder brethren.
Not a fish was visible that first time I visited Beechmere; an utter
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
stillness brooded over the place and I felt the strange and sinister atmosphere which, so the story goes,
has been the cause of several suicides.’
BB – Confessions of a Carp Fisher
Re: Ashlea
I remember reading about Ashlea in Quest for Carp and was simply blown away by the pictures painted by Jack Hiltons words. What an amazing time it must have been for waters like these to be "discovered".....are there still any secret lakes out there waiting for such discovery?
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Another water destroyed by otters. I was sickened when Dave Gawthorn showed me the pictures of the legendary 'known fish' killed for just a couple of mouth fulls of flesh.
Re: Ashlea
That sounds horrific. I guess that has finished the fishing there forever.......Shaun Harrison wrote:Another water destroyed by otters. I was sickened when Dave Gawthorn showed me the pictures of the legendary 'known fish' killed for just a couple of mouth fulls of flesh.