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« **Reply #75 on:** 08/02/2011 at 00:07 »

Dunno but i'll guess Jaques Custeaux?

Sorry Paul.

« **Reply #76 on:** 08/02/2011 at 00:24 »

Alan,
Get off to your bed Min.
Paul.

« **Reply #77 on:** 08/02/2011 at 08:44 »

Henri Bresson

Not only was he a cheese eating surrender monkey he also knew far too much about ducks arses

H

« **Reply #78 on:** 08/02/2011 at 09:40 »

Working on the assumption that was the right answer..... I'll pop up another question and it's pretty easy to keep the ball rolling.

When I started to take a really serious interest in fly fishing there were 'legends' regularly producing articles in Trout Fisherman magazine, a publication my father had largely dismissed as 'the trawlermans journal' largely because of regular articles describing a method of using leeboards and rudders incorporated called the 'Northampton Style'. The techniques that were developed then - over 30 years ago - are still worth knowing and a skill set the 'big loch' fisher should know a thing or two about

I digress.

Anyway, Steve Parton wrote a book that is as valuable today as it was when it was first published for the larger stillwater fisher titled "Boat fishing for trout" which includes heavy reference to techniques he learnt directly and indirectly from the 'source' of the Northampton Style.

The question is, who is credited with being the creator of the Northampton Style

H

« **Reply #79 on:** 08/02/2011 at 09:46 »

bob church

« **Reply #80 on:** 08/02/2011 at 09:54 »

It's a good guess - but it's not the right answer

H

« **Reply #81 on:** 08/02/2011 at 10:11 »

G.E.M Skues?

« **Reply #82 on:** 08/02/2011 at 10:17 »

Nice answer - but it's not right

H

« **Reply #83 on:** 08/02/2011 at 12:25 »

Hi Hamish,
Aye of course you're right. Peter sorry didn't mean to circumvent the rules ,I should have read them first

My guess is Dave Shipman ??????

Paul.

« **Reply #84 on:** 08/02/2011 at 12:31 »

Dick Shrive ?

« **Reply #85 on:** 08/02/2011 at 12:32 »

Hi Hamish ...... I read Steve's book a few years ago, can I guess Richard Holmes, I think he designed the rudders?

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #86 on:** 08/02/2011 at 13:05 »

Quote from: singingpete on 08/02/2011 at 12:31

Dick Shrive ?

Dick Shrive is indeed the right answer

Although one of a group who revolutionised stillwater trout fishing with some distinctly lateral thinking and some creative rule bending, Dick Shrive was years ahead of many and is rightly credited as the man who 'created' the Northampton Style.
Leeboards were his thing and he popularised the use of rudders too - albeit Mr B is quite right, Dick Shrive didn't come up with the first designs of fishing rudder.
I'll be using some of those techniques this year..... I'll post the results

Over to you singingpete

H

« **Reply #87 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:17 »

****** Joker card*******

Why was the 22nd of May 2002 an important date for fly-fishers in Aberdeenshire (and beyond)

H

« **Reply #88 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:26 »

22nd of May 2002 was the day Ethiopia put into operations its plan to irradicate the Tsetse fly.

Welllll..it had to do with flies...closest I could find in Google

« **Reply #89 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:31 »

Quote from: Hamish on 08/02/2011 at 18:17

****** Joker card*******

Why was the 22nd of May 2002 an important date for fly-fishers in Aberdeenshire (and beyond)

H

What about the day that haddo opened?

« **Reply #90 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:37 »

How about the Death of Patrick Wolrige-Gordon MP

Alex

« **Reply #91 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:37 »

Quote from: dave23 on 08/02/2011 at 18:31

What about the day that haddo opened?

Is the right answer

Over to you..................

H

« **Reply #92 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:47 »

Which fishery is located near as place called Al-Fat which is the local pronunciation?

Dave

« **Reply #93 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:54 »

Pitfour

« **Reply #94 on:** 08/02/2011 at 18:57 »

try again

« **Reply #95 on:** 08/02/2011 at 19:02 »

Waulkmill on one side or Fedderate reservoir on the other, closest would be Fedderate.

« **Reply #96 on:** 08/02/2011 at 19:08 »

Well done Alex.

Fedderate Reservoir, an artificial loch of twenty-five acres, christened Loch Riach, unofficially, but better known locally as the "Broch Dam." This rather bleak anglers haunt, constructed during the years 1910 - 1912 to form the main water supply to the Burgh of Fraserburgh, is fed by two gentle streams from the western side of the Bonnykelly district, some five miles north of New Deer.

And actually it feeds Waulkmill

Over to you

« **Reply #97 on:** 08/02/2011 at 19:15 »

For those that didn't know Al-Fat is better known as OLDWHAT.

OK here you go;

What is the connection between a Meat eating Mammal and fishing?

Alex

« **Reply #98 on:** 08/02/2011 at 19:18 »

Stoat('s tail)

Irvine

« **Reply #99 on:** 08/02/2011 at 19:19 »

No sorry try again