Lockwood reservoir Walthamstow

Ian.R.McDonald · Post by **Ian.R.McDonald** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:03 am

Early 70s fishing the 36inch inflow pipe- 2 oz lead bouncing round in the flow.

Green SS glass rods and the all metal efgeeco specimen landing net was a heavy load on the 2 mile walk

Cat · Post by **Cat** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:06 pm

Lovely photo...it captures so much.

Tizer · Post by **Tizer** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:33 pm

Love it, we might have been on there the same time as you, we used to wade across the old Lea and climb up the bank, loverly photo,thanks

Tizer · Post by **Tizer** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:37 pm

Must admit thou, it does look like the King George ressie, you must have been on there as well.

Ian.R.McDonald · Post by **Ian.R.McDonald** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:05 pm

Tizer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:37 pm Must admit thou, it does look like the King George ressie, you must have been on there as well.

no just Lockwood.

we were amongst the first onto W Warwick- 200 + carp doubles stocked totally unfished. Suddenly I realised what being Gibbinson or Hutchinson was like. I had a proper ticket but made the totally stupid choice of crossing 6 train lines to save a one mile walk- crazy , glad to be typing this

I wonder if the feed pipe came from KG to Lockwood?

Fredline · Post by **Fredline** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 7:31 pm

A great picture, the pike is not bad either.

Tizer · Post by **Tizer** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:15 pm

Ah, So you came in from the Lower Manard way, we were right up the other end, We fished one of them on the other side of the road , if I remember right,it was full of silver bream,Only went on the William Girling once and had a 23lb pike, we had so much choice in the Lea Valley, them Walthamstow ressies are still all there yet you never hear anything about them ,weird

Penninelad · Post by **Penninelad** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:22 pm

I still use my 42" Efgeeco Specimen net!

Ian.R.McDonald · Post by **Ian.R.McDonald** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:01 pm

Penninelad wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:22 pm I still use my 42" Efgeeco Specimen net!

you are stronger than me! I still have the mark on my hand after my mistake of trying to get the arms into the spreader without loosening things- but I was attached to a carp- and that was a very rare thing back then

Ian.R.McDonald · Post by **Ian.R.McDonald** » Sat Dec 30, 2023 9:05 pm

Tizer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 30, 2023 8:15 pm Ah, So you came in from the Lower Manard way, we were right up the other end, We fished one of them on the other side of the road , if I remember right,it was full of silver bream,Only went on the William Girling once and had a 23lb pike, we had so much choice in the Lea Valley, them Walthamstow ressies are still all there yet you never hear anything about them ,weird

I think the dreadful current tv carp fishing programmes dont bother to weigh anything under 30 are at the centre.

we are lucky to have this sensible forum

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