Wales in June

In article , riverman
wrote:

(OK, I put this into the 'snowballs chance in hell' category...)

I have an open week in midJune before I need to be in Plymouth, England for
grad school. I've made some reservations to get myself into south-central
Wales from June 15-20, as there are apparently quite a few very nice
trout/greyling/salmon streams there, amongst the headwaters and tributaries
of the Why and Usk rivers. I'm planning on renting a car and a small suite
at a B&B in a small Welsh (Welch?) town that has a pub, some interesting
local culture, some good food, some scenery, and some trout streams.

If anyone has a week off, needs/wants to be on this side of the pond, and
wants to do some exploring of the region and do some flyfishing,
Wales-style, get in touch. It would be fun to have the company.

--riverman

Before you go you *must* read "The Spawning Run" by William Humphrey,
about an american visitor to a fishing hotel in these parts. I think
it's the best piece of fiction ever written about fishing, with the
possible exception of "Moby Dick".

http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?ac...gKx9QqmrZEgpx5
NA7U_3209562730_1:15:65

I hope we can meet at some stage .

it's Welsh, and grayling (for any fans of Inspector Morse, there's a
pathologist called after the fish.)

I'm not sure but I think grayling may be out of season then? But
sea-trout "sewin" in wales, and salmon are not. They also taste much
better.

Lazarus

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Remover the rock from the email address

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
snip
I think
it's the best piece of fiction ever written about fishing, with the
possible exception of "Moby Dick".
...

At the risk of sounding didactic, "Moby Dick" isn't about fishing.

--
Ken Fortenberry

In article , Ken
Fortenberry wrote:

Lazarus Cooke wrote:
snip
I think
it's the best piece of fiction ever written about fishing, with the
possible exception of "Moby Dick".
...

At the risk of sounding didactic, "Moby Dick" isn't about fishing.

Nonsense. A fish is a fish, whether it has nipples or not. See matthew
12:40. Are you telling me God's got it wrong? That Jesus made a
mistake? Why do you hate America?

Let me tell you I'm an ulster protestant.......

:l

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Remover the rock from the email address

"Lazarus Cooke" schrieb im Newsbeitrag
om...
Let me tell you I'm an ulster protestant.......


Oh dear, I think that´s ****ed it altogether!

Just a tip, if you want to **** on Ken ( not that he´d notice anyway), you
have to do it from a great height!

TL
MC ( Still climbimg!)

A few quotes from the preface to "moby dick"

ŒThe Indian Sea breedeth the most and the biggest
fishes that a among which the Whales and Whirlpooles
called Balaene, take up as much in length as four acres or
arpens of land.¹ ‹HOLLAND¹S PLINY.

ŒIf you should write a fable for little fishes, you would
make them speak like great wales.¹ ‹GOLDSMITH TO
JOHNSON.

ŒThe Spermacetti Whale found by the Nantuckois, is
an active, fierce animal, and requires vast address and
boldness in the fishermen.¹ ‹THOMAS JEFFERSON¹S
WHALE MEMORIAL TO THE FRENCH
MINISTER IN 1778.

ŒA tenth branch of the king¹s ordinary revenue, said to
be grounded on the consideration of his guarding and
protecting the seas from pirates and robbers, is the right to
royal fish, which are whale and sturgeon. And these, when
either thrown ashore or caught near the coast, are the
property of the king.¹ ‹BLACKSTONE.

ŒIn the free element beneath me swam,
Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle,
Fishes of every colour, form, and kind;
Which language cannot paint, and mariner
Had never seen; from dread Leviathan
To insect millions peopling every wave:
Gather¹d in shoals immense, like floating islands,
Led by mysterious instincts through that waste
And trackless region, though on every side
Assaulted by voracious enemies,
Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm¹d in front or jaw,
With swords, saws, spiral horns, or hooked fangs.¹ ‹
MONTGOMERY¹S WORLD BEFORE THE
FLOOD.

ŒIo! Paean! Io! sing.
To the finny people¹s king.
Not a mightier whale than this
In the vast Atlantic is;
Not a fatter fish than he,
Flounders round the Polar Sea.¹ ‹CHARLES LAMB¹S
TRIUMPH OF THE WHALE.

Lazarus

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Remover the rock from the email address

Lazarus Cooke wrote in message
. ..
A few quotes from the preface to "moby dick"


ŒIf you should write a fable for little fishes, you would
make them speak like great wales.¹ ‹GOLDSMITH TO
JOHNSON.



I've never seen this Goldsmith quote before; in context, it is rather
amusing. In Boswell's words (IIRC): "Poor old Goldsmith".

I've never seen this Goldsmith quote before; in context, it is rather
amusing. In Boswell's words (IIRC): "Poor old Goldsmith".



IIRC?

L

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Remover the rock from the email address

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
...
Lazarus Cooke wrote:
snip
I think
it's the best piece of fiction ever written about fishing, with the
possible exception of "Moby Dick".
...

At the risk of sounding didactic, "Moby Dick" isn't about fishing.

--
Ken Fortenberry


...And there goes the thread.
:-)

--riverman

In article , Lazarus
Cooke writes
I'm not sure but I think grayling may be out of season then? But
sea-trout "sewin" in wales, and salmon are not. They also taste much
better.

The Grayling - the "Lady of the Stream" is a bit of a paradox. Its
season is similar to coarse fish but it has an adepoise fin like
salmonids.

The grayling is fished for during the winter.
--
Bill Grey
http://www.billboy.co.uk