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Our member Stuart Little with a nice surprise from the Great Pond today .

An Eel at 3lb 11oz !

Our carp pond has been the subject of many a conversation over these past few years.

Despite our committee asking our carp anglers so send in their captures, it can seem that nothing is ever caught.

But our member Gary Walker has done fabulously well over this season, showing just how to do it .

Just because it’s w**d or the lilly’s are plentiful don’t let it out you off .

Our member James Baldwin with another old warrior from our ancient pool

Our local member Rob Catherall - managed to extract an old warrior from our ancient carp pond - 19.10 - what a belter from a beautiful old place

Rummaging through some old papers and I came across a file of old press cutting from the Steel News, I started writing them in 1979 and finished in August 1995. This particular one refers to an earlier one published in July 1981 which in turn had been stimulated by comments from Tommy Pickering that orange (chrysoidine) maggots were finished and the red ones were the ones to use. Tommy's coments got me thinking. I'd looked for a red dye a few years before and all I could find was Auromine, which did't colour maggots effectively. I realised then that red dye was fed into the bait not used on the siurface like chrysoidine. Part of my search however took me to dye manufacturers and to Sheffield University all of whom told me that anglers were mad to use such carcinogenic cheminals as we did because they could be dangerous. In between the two (1981 and '82) word spread and there were reports of three midlands anglers dying which was attributed to the use of Chrysoidine.

Rummaging through some old papers the other day I found a press cutting that I wrote for the Steelworks News in 1982. It was one of many published between 1981 and 1995 and referred to an previous article in 1981 which highlighed the use of Chysoidine dye for colouring maggots. At the time, following comments from Tommy Pickering that red maggots were superceeding orange I had been trying to find a red dye that did the job. My search took me to dye manufacturers and to Sheffield University, all of who told me I was mad because such substances are carcinogenic and anglers were mad to use them as they did. Word soon got out, ably assisted by the fact that three Midlands anglers reportedly died as a result of using Chrydoidine.
The picture also landed me in trouble. Works anglers will recognise Aldwarke Primary Mill in the back ground and I remember sitting in the canteen as readers pondered over exactly where it was and how an angler had caught such a fish from the river which at the time was devoid of any life let alone fish. It was in fact a picture of an angler with Trent carp superimposed on a picture of the mill!