Huge thanks to each and every speaker, we appreciate the time and effort you have all put in to entertain us.
'09-'10
Feb- Colin Brett
Apologies to Colin I posted this after the talk, just checked and for some reason it didn't save. Only my blurry memory to go on.
Colin came to us with tales of salmon (several types that were all big) Sturgeon( they seemed really big) and adventures in Canada (quite a big country) plus pictures of pretty girls in delicate dresses. The girls in pretty dresses were what everyone wanted to see but Colin made us listen about the fish.
The salmon fishing in Canada is to say the least rather spectacular, great big buggers that seem to run in endless numbers up the rivers from the Western seaboard. They even have teeth!
After the Salmon came the Sturgeon and it was hard not to be impressed, great big prehistoric looking things that very strangely took the tiniest and most unlikely looking baits, usually small bunches or salmon eggs. A 60 pounder was impressive a 150 pounder dwarfed everything around it.
The cost and time involved does perhaps put such a trip out of most peoples reach but Colin presented with such enthusiasm I'm sure most of us felt we were there too, Colin spent a few thousand on his adventure and we got it all for a £2.50 entrance fee, fantastic stuff.
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Jan 4th- Peter and Mark Green
Sorry for being tardy getting this one up, maxed out and almost forgot.
Despite a poor turnout due to being the 1st day back at work for many Pete and Mark gave us a little cracker of a talk. Very open and honest all the way though it concentrated on a few local waters for the pair of them from a canal that fished well early season to lakes in the centre of Leeds. Both Peter and Mark have caught some beauties from there Yorkshire waters and gave sound no nonsense ways to go about it.
In a way the actual piking almost became secondary to me as a large part of their talk wasn't about actually catching pike but teaching others how to catch pike. Both of them give an awful lot of there time and a great deal of effort running teach-in sessions on local waters and I felt slightly humbled at the lack of effort I have put into this avenue. A lesson for myself and others to give a little back to the piking scene that we all love.
A great night that concentrated on the important things ion piking and not just catching pike.
Young Frazer Overton not only couldn't believe his luck at winning the Guess the Weight comp but his eyes were on stalks some of the rarer birds at Fairburn Ings.
Peter and Mark, thank you.
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Dec 7th- John Watson
John "Watto" Watson was without doubt one of the most anticipated speakers we have ever had, he had given up the "speaker circuit" when the lad Blaydes was still in knee length shorts and Steve Hood was sub 6'. But for one reason or another we managed to pry him away from his adopted Norfolk and with his trusty sidekick Graham Booth, he was going to give us a talk.
Before the actual talk began John took 5 minutes or so to express how saddened he was at the recent loss of Barrie Rickards, and just what he had meant to the world of piking and in particular the P.A.C.. Barries' loss was a hard blow to everyone over a certain age who grew up on his writing and the formation of the P.A.C. John's words were a timely reminder for those who had learned so much from him and the legacy that Barrie had left for those who were younger.
Watto gave us.... Clothing-wooly, waxed, semi waterproof and then quite modern.Then he gave us Equipment-heavy, unsuitable, broken, passable then suitable. Moving on to Boats- plywood, wood, a fleeting of fibreglass then alumium in every colour of the non gay rainbow-grey, brown green and back again.He also gave us Pike, pike of various sizes shapes and colours, not all his but some absolute belters many of which were his, pike caught in that big expanse of the Broads system but very often not from the big expanses.Away from deepest Norfolk he gave us sun, and funny shaped fish, oh and slightly too tight, too short shorts, and peeling skin. It seemed much safer in Norfolk!
What Watto brought more than anything to us through his talk was his thoughts on what piking is to him and the dedication to his craft that he has. There were a few stories of skirmishes with the powers that be, perhaps a little rule bending but John is certainly a man of passion when it comes to what he loves and there should always be passion and drive in all of us when it comes to the things we love.
A fantastic and frank talk from John, hugely appreciated and thank you.
A "scally" thinking he might be able to pinch the "Watto" pen.
Nov.2nd- Steve Ormrod
Steve's arrival was very much anticipated at the Mighty 48 (and especially by Sie Blaydes), originally booked for last year but beaten by Pennine snow drifts we had 12 months to twiddle our thumbs.
Steve's talked primarily about one main body of water, a type of water we are most unlikely to encounter in these parts, despite this apparant glaring error I'd say everyone present learned something that was applicable to their own piking.
From bio-diversity, the basis of any water, to features and understanding them, pre-bait, groundbait, tackle/rigs, the talk had it all but what shone through was the importance of fish care and how despite several fish being recaptured by Steve and others they were mint. Due to the high level of care the fish could grow on from a typical low double to become bigger fish, something that should be observed on every water.
If everyone present took one thing from the talk that aided their understanding of pike and piking, Steve's talk would have been successful, I feel that it's more likely that they took away at least half a dozen, definitely a success then.
Many thanks Steve, top night.
Steve in full swing during Q&A's telling us how a 30 bit his arm off.
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Sept 7th - Gary knowles
6 months without a speaker night, the 1st meeting of the year and despite Gary's reputation as a great angler and entertaining speaker I was a little nervous, should I have been? No is the simple answer.
Gary describes himself as an angler who pike fishes rather than a pike angler, I'm actually thinking of going back to the perch, bream and tench plus adding chub barbel and zander if they might help me come into contact with the pike that Gary has caught, stunning fish from many differing waters.
Throughout the talk he shared many stories involving some pretty famous anglers, some ugly famous anglers, a Cambs based YMCA policeman and events through his piking journey that raised plenty of laughs.
Gary did more than just talk about his piking, chubbing , perching, he thoroughly entertained us through the whole night and opened a few eyes and minds along the way, I couldn't have hoped for more than that.
Thank you Gary.
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Oct. 5th - Steve Younger
Hell I should have been taking notes, Steve took us everywhere and caught everything during his talk entitled "Safari fishing Norfolk style.Tope fishing off the Wash and North Norfolk, Zander and pike from the Fens,Tiger fish, Vundu, Bronze Whalers from Africa, Catfish, snake heads and all manner of weirdness from Thailand, Alligator Gar from Texas...I just can't list them all. What I can say is Steve just loves to fish and equally as importantly loves to put others onto fish too.
Something that did impress the hell out of me was that for a King's Lynn lad he did a fantastic selection of accents tewlling us of frieds he has fished with from Africa, Holland denmark to name just a few plus a German!
Steve gave us a thoroughly entertaining evening and lots of food for thought, he even put on a tackle stand for us , an all round top fella and a very good nights entertainment. I hope that the Congo does open up soon and he gets a chance for those Goliath Tigers. Many thanks Steve.
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'08-'09
March 2nd John Milford
Finishing off our 08-09 season of speakers was John Milford, he came to us around 5 years ago and although I knew his talk had changed we were actually treated to an all new show this time.
John's love of lures is legendary and so it was no surprise that they would feature in the presentation. He kicked of the talk with a gentle and easy to follow history of early lures and there places in the development of lure fishing here in the UK. I thought I knew a bit about lures but even I learned plenty in a short space of time, I know everyone else in the room did too. Cunningly John slipped in a few pics of leggy ladies in stockings and 50's underwear to keep the bait-drowners happy and to send a few of our older members memories back to their youths.
After the break John gave us a cracking view of his Catalunia Catfishing trips from a predator anglers angle, no piles of pellets but proper pred fishing. Fantastic to see 6lb rods bent double and dayglow thermos flasks being trotted downstream in the hope of a huge predators taking the bait. There was mention of lots of spawn but none of it was regarding the actual fish but was directed more towards Spike Gould!
Our numbers were down a little on the night but John gave us a great talk to finish of our season, many thanks John.
John caught thinking about warmer climes and big orange cats.
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Feb. 2nd Steve Ormrod
Very regrettably Steve and I took the decision to call off the meeting due to the appalling weather, having Steve risk things coming over the Pennines and then back again was simply not on. We have reschedules Steve's talk for November '09.
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Jan 5th Mick Cobb
Mick had mentioned to me over the past few days they I may have built him up just a bit to much, he is a very modest fella but I knew he had caught a few so I was pretty sure my build up was justified.
There isn't an easy way to put this but I was wrong, I hadn't hyped him up anywhere nearly as much as I should have done! God's teeth the man has caught some fish bloody great big beautiful green things any of us would have been more than proud to catch.Once Mick had discovered his love of pike there was no stopping him, stacks of fish on the Trent to days in Ireland that left him too tired to fish anymore, to rock hard waters that would have seen most of us throwing in the towel and moving on.Mick however achieved success by finding edges to boost his catch rates through his tackle, set up and lots and lots of thought.
Mick obviously really enjoys his piking often with a close group of friends both here and in Ireland and apart from the joy that catching pike brings us all, fishing with friends really came over as something that is very dear to him and has greatly enhanced his piking career. All this despite talking apparent gibberish to strangers asking about his catches on the bank and erecting signs telling them that he hadn't caught for four years!
Many thanks Mick for a great talk and a fantastic display of pike photo's that was a testament to any pike angler's career, it is to yours, an unduly modest piker .
Mick in full swing flanked by some creatures of the night!
Our photographer who cannot be named apologises for the lack of quality, ta Bryan.
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Dec. 1st-Ian Weatherall
Ian as we all know is a regular at the Mighty 48, always the one with almost too many probing questions for our speakers but on this occasion the tables were to be turned. I had asked him to consider giving us a talk around 10 months ago as I knew he had
A. caught some quality fish
B. put lots of work into his piking
C. he had something to say
D. he had slept with Bill Palmer and something must have rubbed off!!
The day of the talk saw him visit the toilet a dozen times, he also couldn't eat his tea so on arrival he must have been both hollow and malnourished, nerves were to say the least a little jittery. If this wasn't bad enough for him we had a crowd of 44 in to witness his first talk.
Fanbloodytastic is the best way to sum things up, Ian was straight away into his stride and didn't show any of his alleged pre-show nerves.
Ian took us through his formative stages of piking and then into the "I want bigger fish so I'll work like hell" for it time, not many of us are prepared to leave at midnight on a Friday to drive to the Broads, catch bait on the way set up a base and be in a boat at 4 o'clock to fish all weekend then return for work for Monday. This being on the water paid huge dividends and we were treated to a real fish fest on the night. No matter where Ian was fishing be it the Broads, Ireland, lakes or rivers, Ian has worked hard and kept very good company along the way especially amongst his group of "Cod-head" friends.
In addition to the pike fishing Ian also turned to Zander, and he used the same hard work gets results ethos for those too, initially this failed miserably for 3 years before everything came together and he turned into a Zander catching machine, perhaps too much effort was put into finding swims close to "dogging" areas early on was something to do with those 3 lean years, who really know!
A really top notch talk that everyone without exception enjoyed, huge thanks for saying yes to us Ian, we hope you that you impressed yourself as much as you did us and do some more, thanks.
Ian in full swing and definitely not looking nervous.
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November-Bring and buy sale-Hell you don't want to hear about that.
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Oct 6th- Mick Bowen
Mick arrived with more props than all of our last 2 years worth of speakers combined and after negotiating the steep stairs with his Kayak he set about entertaining us.
From the same simple fishing beginnings that the majority of us share, the ups and downs of life in general and then finding more time for friends and fishing, Mick gave us a great nights entertainment in the particular way that only Mick could.
Combining stories of his friends, his family, years at Solihull PAC the fishing trips around the world and the nurturing of juniors into our sport, together with quick changes of outfit and more than a spattering of ribald gags about his adventures and piking mates, Mick put on a memorable talk that I'd recommend anyone to see if they get the chance.
Mick enjoys all aspects of his fishing and it really came over throughout the night, he also demonstrated very clearly that fishing more than anything can and should be both fun and funny and that's the way it should be.
Many thank Mick for entertaining us and also for putting so much back to our sport by doing the talks and your work with the youngsters.Top fella.
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Sept. 1st - Stephen Harper.
Stephen Harper is the man in the know regarding everything about Broadland and the pike in it's vast system, he has also been a tireless campaigner and supporter for pike welfare. A passionate man for the area he loves and for the pike that he holds in the highest regard. All this came over throughout his talk by the bucketful. The talk covered the history of the Broads, some awe inspiring fish, captured both by himself and others, movement of fish, fluctuations in different systems over the years, and his thoughts on boats along with a multitude of tales of the local characters both good and bad.
A truly inspirational talk and one that a good few of members will put to use in their Norfolk forays.
We did look doomed for 10 minutes two minutes into the talk with computer problems but our highly trained team of I.T. luddites managed to hit enough buttons and we were on our way again, thank you Darren and Steve.
Thank you Stephen, a great talk and a fantastic ambassador for our sport.
An appalling photo showing Stephen keeping an eye on the malfunctioning equipment.
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'o7-'08
Sept 3rd-Eric Edwards
Our opener for this season was Eric Edwards boat fishing master and capture of many many big fish from a multitude of waters. Eric is known for his wit and insight of all things pikey and didn't disappoint on the night.The talk covered everything from his first steps into the piking world, the up's and down's along the way to his many successes and captures of the present day. Throughout the talk our members were highly entertained and all thoroughly spellbound by Eric if a little shy of the audience participation,come on lads, join in the fun.
Many thanks Eric.
I'm afraid that the photo's of Eric's talk were not great, apologies to Eric.
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Oct 1st - Jason Davis
well I was back from the U.S. and was glad I was, Jason travelled across from deepest darkest Norfolk taking a night off from nabbing nasty b'stards to give us a belter of a talk. Had he have just come armed with an album of photo's we would have been more than happy providing that they were the pike in his presentation.
To say he produced pictures of jaw droppingly huge pike in a totally self effacing way was an understatement- huge beautifully marked pike caught in a very short period of Jason's piking career, but a part of his career that left everybody totally envious of him but inspired at just what could happen if we can find such a special water.
Jason presented the talk with great modesty reminding us that anyone finding the water could have caught his fish but after listening to how he managed to gain access, his methods and care of the fish, he deserved every one and there are very few anglers out there who would have treated such a find with the respect that Jason did. Apart from the scale of the fish the one thing that I will remember from the show was that in every photo Jason looked like the happiest man on earth, and so he should have been, I know that I would have been.
Many thanks Jason
Jason looking suave in his DLST sweatshirt
Jason, Nev and Graham Slater during the break. Nev always gets top table and Graham keeping hold of his pint.
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Nov. 5th Graham Slater
Knowing Graham for a while I was more than interested when he first asked if we at Lincoln fancied a talk, Graham is a very dedicated piker and has a huge range of methods and types of piking under his belt and so I knew that it would be a very varied and interesting one.
From the drains of Lincolnshire, Ireland,the glacial lakes, Scottish Lochs to the trout reservoirs and the Broads both on the bank and from boats is a huge spectrum for any piker to cover but Graham gave us his very honest and down to earth approach to how he applied himself to each and had success on them all. He works at his piking and obviously puts a great deal of thought into it and has had some very nice fish along the way, some like everybody has been entirely down to luck and he was honest enough to admit it on the occasions that luck played it's part.
Always looking for ways to put more fish on the bank, Graham evolved as all good pikers do, picking up new methods and mastering them on the way despite perhaps some initial misgivings and becoming a very rounded angler who can catch pike on any method.
Thank you Graham for an honest and very entertaining talk.
Not the best shot of George Clooney but it looks very much like Graham getting a round in.
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Dec. 3rd Alex Prouse
I caught Alex at Corby PAC last year and thought that his talk would be the perfect inspiration for us everyday pikers, those that haven't access to 30's on their doorstep or lots of free time to fish, and so I sweet talked him into doing a spot for us.
Tonight Alex had expanded his whole talk at least threefold from last year and it did exactly what I hoped it would. Alex led us through the very beginings of his piking through to the present day including his family holiday in Canada (based cunningly around Muskie fishing), trips to Ireland, native Trout waters and his local rivers and lakes.
Alex thinks about his piking and uses his watercraft, trying things that those around him are often ignoring and putting fish on the bank because of it, trying new methods such as his "lampshade rig", I must admit that when seen in the flesh it is simplicity itself and hardly surprising that it works so well. The unkind among us may have thought that the inspiration for it came from his often unusual headgear seen throughout the talk.
The thought that Alex puts in was obvious during the development of his lures, not content with the baits he could buy he produced some of the best rigged, durable soft baits on the market and they really do work, the photo's of some cracking fish proved that.
Many thanks from all at Lincoln for demonstrating that getting out fishing despite the pressures of work and the joys of family life can be so rewarding provided that you can put that extra bit of thought into it all.
Apologies for my appalling camera work on the night, abysmal in every way, you'll have to make do with a pic we saw on the night.
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Jan. 7th '08 Nigel Savage
In the run up to Nigel's talk I became very worried indeed, it seemed that at least 70% of pikers in Lincolnshire either had explosive bowel syndrome or were working nights and I was starting to think we were going to have 6 turn up. My fears were mostly unfounded as on the night we did have a lower crowd than normal but enough to make it a night.
Nigel was here to talk flyfishing for pike and that he did, considering that there were certainly a few doubters in the crowd I would say he had won them all over by the end of the 1st half of the talk, here was a man who loved his fishing and more than thatloved his quarry. Spending 17 seasons working at Rutland as a warden must be a definite advantage for any angler but Nigel spreads his fishing over a much broader range, the fen drains, Ireland and as far as Cuba to name a few.
Pike are Nigel's biggest love but he also targets Zander and Perch from a broad spectrum of waters too.
The talk included the technical side with strange words and funny names but even to the uninitiated it all seemed to make sense as the delivery was beautifully paced and with Nigel answering question during the talk and at the intervals.
Many thanks Nigel for a fantastic talk on an area that the majority of the audience were not perhaps familiar with, we did have flyfishers in the audience and I think that they may well soon be pike flyfishers too such was the enthusiasm that Nigel gave us on the night.
Nigel answering a question and trying to ignore 2 alien flyfishers from another region who simply wanted their bodyparts autographing.
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Feb. 4th John Synnuck & Steve Gould
John and Steve travelled all the way from Thames Gateway for us tonight, just on 3 hours so huge thanks to them for that alone.
Unusually for us the talk had not one single Pike, but more than made up for it with tales and images of some monster predators from around the world. John and Steve showed us just what a fantastic predator the European catfish can be and helped us poor "stay at homes" realise the sheer power of them and size that they achieve. The film footage told the story so much better than stills ever could.
John moved onto India and Mahseer, essentially the trials and tribulations of his quest to catch one of the worlds most beautiful fish whilst surrounded by crocodiles, elephants, leopards and guides who ran away from danger without actually mentioning it John!
Tarpon fishing was the shows finale and hell, we all want to have the chance to catch at least one, sod the pike these fish are beasts and stunning beasts at that. John talked us through tackle, boats, sweat, scary sharks and importantly showed us stills and video footage of battling the king of the Herring family. Simply awe inspiring is the only way to put it.
An jaw dropping talk-many, many thanks to John and Steve for traveling all the way up to see us, everyone enjoyed it immensely.
A rather poor photo showing John waxing lyrical and Steve thinking about the long journey back.
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March 3rd Phil Wakeford
I always get a tad nervous before a speaker night and must admit I was slightly more nervous than usual tonight. Nothing ominous but Phil was traveling up an awful long way and I had a few calls from regulars letting me know for genuine reasons they couldn't make it. I was also slightly apprehensive as Phil is the PAC President and we have never had a guest speaker of such a high rank.
Should I have been nervous? Hell no! Phil pulled in a very good crowd and despite his title was very much one of us, a piker who loved his fishing and just happened to be our President.
Phil began as most do by running us through his early years, making those usual mistakes before becoming a fully fledged capable piker and spreading his wings, fishing, making friends and catching an impressive array of pike from all over the country and beyond.
Phil took the time to acknowledge those who had helped him in his piking apprenticeship such as Dave Horton regarding livebaiting and David Overy with lures in Ireland and the appreciation that to catch pike consistantly requires the mastering of all aspects of pike fishing and not just sticking to one method.
Phil gave us a treat of a talk and some fantastic slides - 20's, 30's and even a few 40's together with an array of rock hard waxed-cotton clothing, crap hats and dubious facial hair thrown in for good measure.
Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the whole night and we thank Phil for all the effort driving up to entertain us, many thanks.
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April 7th Neville Fickling
April saw a rarity for the 48 and that was a cancellation of a speaker, nothing that the speaker could have forseen and we had enough time to re-arrange another and who better to step into the breech than the young lad Neville Fickling, local to us, a font of all knowledge and a regular at our meetings too. Only a little sweet-talking was involved and Neville was booked.
Nev was very conscious some of our lads had seen most of his talk before (most hadn't) and carefully selected a different set of slides to the norm and gave us an almost entirely new talk that was very much appreciated and went down very well with both the fresh faced members and those who had been around a bit longer (insert your own thought here).
Slides were followed by the standard break then we had the one-man piking panel to fire our questions at, Nev being the font of all knowledge answered all with ease and then went off at a tangent on a crusade againt pipe smoking, hat wearing slow-coach drivers , tractors and the cost of fuel, maybe not piking releted but all seemed to find an agreement within our ranks.
One of the things that I always wonder is just what keeps someone like Nev going. For almost all of us Nev seems to have been The piker who has inspired and instructed us through his magazine articles and books, tonight he answered that question for me and it is the exact reason we all do it, he simply said "When I've had a good day and had a nice fish, it's like walking on air for the rest of the week". That was good enough for me and ought to be for everyone else too.
Many thanks to Nev for a great night and for stepping in to help us out at much shorter notice than we would have liked.
Neville holding court backed by Yorkshiremen with lots of Trent questions.
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'06-'07
Bill Palmer Sept '06
Bill was a fantastic speaker as well as the nicest bloke you'll ever meet, everybody who was there loved every minute.Bill presented our outgoing R.O. Dave Tovey with a "thank you" from us all at R.A. 48 for his sterling efforts in getting the region going again and dragging us out to meetings for the last 2 years.Without him we simply wouldn't be here- many, many thanks Dave.
(there is something in the box honest) Our Treas. Rick and dept R.O. Andy are far from photogenic! This was the best, at least Rick had his eyes open in this one!
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Bill came down from Harrogate and gave us a very informative chat about the Yorkshire rivers and a few lakes . Absolutely full of enthusiasm and still as happy catching a low double as a twenty which is the way it should be.
I was sadly lacking in taking many photos but at least I managed to catch Bill here displaying his high tech slide show equipment that Chris Yates would call "cutting edge". A very nice night was had by all.
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Lee gave us a fantastic talk, amazing that we were only his second ever. It had everything, big fish, enthusiasm for both his fish and fishing, plenty of laughs and very nicely presented. Another good turn-out saw 37 on the door and each and everyone had a great night.All much appreciated Lee. Thanks to Phil Kirk for putting us on to him and the Notts posse for coming over.
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Mark's talk was not only very professional(he may have done one or two before) but very informative and most entertaining. He kicked off with Pike and after the break eased into Zander, Rudd, Perch and the C word.
I hope he was half as impressed with us (nice turn out again) as we were with him, a bloody good talk however you looked at it.
Mark's run of luck with all things mechanical continued- 10 minutes after he left a few of us still in the pub had an SOS message that he had left his lights on and needed a push start! Mark and the shonky motor were actually surprisingly easy to move/start and away he went off into the night-hope you made it home OK.Many thanks for a great night Mark.
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"Rodders"- 8th Jan '07
Rodders made a return trip to Lincoln to give his very funny but very passionate talk on what piking means to him and his adventures along the way. We had Rodders a few seasons back but we have a lot fresh members and they deserved to get him back, everyone who made it was very glad they had.
Not many talks can include big fish, Dave Horton dumping or Eddie Tuner's not so golden balls but this one did and had us all in stitches. Rodders certainly has a passion for pikeing and for life and this came over in bucketfuls during the talk, many thanks Rodders for coming over to us and for such a great night.
This may have been the moment Eddie's balls came up.
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Edddie Turner- 5th Feb '07
Well what can I say? Eddie had been one of the most anticipated speakers of the whole season and he certainly didn't disappoint. We had either 57 or 60 through the door depending on who counted and how still they kept which is a club record and each and everyone had a fantastic night.
Eddie started with some phenominal video clips from 'Deggy that had to be seen to be believed, then ran through an unbelievable series of his own and his friends big fish over the years and then onto boats, sinkings and other minor disasters before showing a few sneaks of some unbelievable fish he has had much more recently, one of our better known attendees (N.F.) perked up no-end at this point as he had a glimpse of just what Eddie had been up to but hadn't been able to add to a certain list.
Eddie entertained us the whole night with his at times hilarious tales of both pike and people who all seemed "larger than life" the photo's however showed just how real they all were.
I honestly don't think we have ever had so much from one speaker and if we had been treated to just a third of what we were given we would have thought we had done very well.All in all a fantastic night and Eddie thoroughly deserves his "legend" status. Many thanks Eddie.
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Rob Christen 5th March '07
Rob looking determined,Simon Blaydes swigging beer, Rick Straw scratching his ear.About half the crowd (47-thanks lads), Matt thinking he had to be at work very soon
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