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Aug 53 min read

Skaters

In 1986 I was sat in Spalding Gentlemen’s Society when the then President of the Society, Bob Whiston told me that when he was a child...

Jul 2216 min read

Fishing from the Coast to River and Fen

Sturgeon Sturgeon are almost never seen in UK waters either in the sea or inland. However, occasional non-native sturgeon species get...

Jul 54 min read

Netting Lapwings and other Birds

Also, reproduced many times in books and magazines are Frank Parkinson’s photographs of plover netting on Cowbit Wash with clap-nets....

Jun 242 min read

Washland Punt Gunning

The inland punt-gunner was a rare beast that was typically found in the Fenlands of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire, but was also seen in...

Jun 3, 20224 min read

The Great Guns of the Fens.

In 1906 Mr Henry Pickering, then 88, revealed what it was like to pursue wildfowl with a punt on Cowbit Wash in the 1840’s: When about...

Sep 3, 20216 min read

Warnings from the past of the dangers of wildfowling

1st September saw the start of the wildfowling season. It is possibly one of the purest and most challenging forms of field sport still...

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