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A VERY YOUNG MR FICKLING
I HAVE been reading Angling Times for more than 60 years... and used to write the odd feature for the title. Sadly, I have always been a completely bonkers predator angler.
So, rummaging through a pile of yellow mouldering copies of Angling Times from many years ago I discovered, by incredible coincidence, the enclosed picture of Neville Fickling.
I kept this one because a picture taken by my fellow piker Fred Wagstaffe (he used to write a weekly column in AT) was on that particular cover.
You may locate it in your archives... just ignore the ancient comments I wrote at the time!
We used to have memorable disagreements with Neville in the 1960s and 1970s about Midlanders ‘poaching’ his area.
I recently bumped into Neville after a day’s pike fishing at Chew Valley Lake.
He’s still an amazing character, as well as a famous, slightly enigmatic, and unbeatable pike and zander angler. And I still buy his Lucebaits, too!
THE ANGLER’S CROSSWORD
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ACROSS
1 Angel of the North water with 881lb + match record in 2021 (*awes bloke!) (5,4)
6 See 6dn.
8 Used in the Method to secure line to pole (*celibate) (5,3)
9 Targeting e.g. snigs (6)
10 Predatory, gull-like bird (*auks!) (4)
11 Used for baits not mounted on hooks (5)
13 Try out this Hants. river! (4)
14 Propels a canoe (7)
16 Models of perfection (*ladies?) (6)
18 ____ Forster, Angling Trust Silver Fish champ 2022 (6)
20 Tributary of the Goyt (*where to?) (7)
22 Plymouth's river (4)
24 Alan ___, won four Drennan weekly awards in 2022/23 (5)
26 Charlotte __, in winning Aquaholics team, Ang.Trust Ladies National 2022 (*ergo) (4)
27 Scottish borders river, Tweed's largest tributary (*vote it) (6)
29 Town of SE Wales on the River
