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Welcome to Lincoln P.A.C.'s (R.A.48) Blogspot.We are the 1st P.A.C. region to try this out and I hope that it is successful in letting everyone from our region and beyond know just what is going regarding meetings and more.
Each and every one of us has a real passion for pike and piking in all it's forms, some pikers chase our chosen quarry the length and breadth of the country, others are content in fishing locally on a few selected venues; whichever category you have chosen I would hope that you can find something of value from our region,be it from our Winter Speaker season or from our local members or the PAC nationally.
Piking is often all about solitude and the piker pitting his wits against our water's apex predator but even if your piking is conducted that way to meet with like minded individuals once a month can be fantastic way to broaden your outlook and pick up the odd trick here and there and that can only enhance everyone's piking and the enjoyment our sport brings.
Lincoln PAC meet from Sept.-April on the 1st Monday of the month at the Stag's Head in Newport Lincoln (see section 6.).We encourage everyone to arrive early, especially new faces, nice to chat before the speaker is on at 20:00. All welcome from 19:00.
PAC membership encouraged but not a prerequisite, we are here to talk pike and generally be social.
All abilities of piker are welcome, those just starting or thinking of piking especially welcome as we will point you in the right direction, help and assist you.
We welcome anyone with an interest in pike, even zandermen can come!
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ENTRANCE (speaker nights)
PAC members-£2.50
Non members- £3.50
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NEWS
NEXT SPEAKER
JOHN WATSON DEC. 7th
The one, the only yes..... the legend that is John Watson.John needs no introduction at all to the piking masses but he's a straight talking piker's piker who knows how to catch especially in his adopted county of Norfolk.
Possibly standing room only so get there early.
John will have copies of Pikers Progression with him on the night, bring some cash.
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Fresh face on the 48 committee .
A young, keen, man-mountain of a fella has dived in at the deep end and become the 48's new Treasurer. Simply put we wanted someone on the team who could actually catch a pike and also someone who wouldn't get a bag of cash ripped from their grip. Who better than the Glentham bagging machine Sie Blaydes, welcome Sie and thank you for stepping up.
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St Barnabas Fish-in
After last years fantastic efforts and a good day out it is proposed we fish the event this year on the 29th of November. This year will be fished with local rivals Nottingham PAC to add a little bitter rivalry to the proceedings! Both should be good for 20-25 places, if you want to get your name on the sheet let me know pronto.This is a chance to get out and have a social whilst raising money for a great local cause, the fact that we will grind those new Nott's lads into the mud with our finer piscatorial skills is just a bonus!!
START/FINISH
meet at the far car park (drive toward the sailing club car park on left) at 07:30
rods back in at 16:00.Weather is looking good
29th Nov.
S.Blaydes,S.Hood,E.Skablauskas,M.Hunt,D.McCrudden,K.Pyle,C.Walsh,K.Mychajluk,, A.Hill, R. Hill,Chico,C.Roberts, K.Southern, J.Willis, Trevor Perkins.
Still have up to 6 places available for this date, mail/phone me.
Retailer of the Month
I have decided to highlight one of the companies featured in our "Useful sites" section each month as they sometimes get overlooked, hopefully this will encourage you to check the others out too.
This month it is the turn of BILLY'S BLUE BACKBITERS pukka alarms for pukka pikers.
Check their site in the "Interesting sites product" section in the l/h margin
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SPEAKERS FOR '09-'10
September 7th - Gary knowles
See Archive
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October 5th - Steve Younger
See Archive
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November 2nd- Steve Ormrod
See Archive
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December 7th - John Watson +books
The John Watson, I should hardly need to say anymore! Famed for "A Piker's Progress" and soon his sequel "Pikers Progression", John will give us a talk about all of his piking and especially the Broads.Come armed with your question and books to sign, Piker's Progression will be available on the night.
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January 4th - "Sir" Peter Green & Mark Green
January brings piking royalty to the 48 in the shape of Sir Peter Green Wakefield R.O. and his son, Selby RO Mark Green. We all know that in Yorkshire they like to call a spade a spade and so in typical Yorkshire fashion their talk is entitled "Yorkshire Piking", there will be pike in it and I reckon they'll be from Yorkshire.
Those from the Mighty 48 with a little wanderlust in their hearts have forayed into this neighbouring county and scored a few crackers, make sure to gleen every bit of info from this one as it will be belter.
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February 1st- Colin "Father Jack" Brett
Colin comes to us with his highly acclaimed talk entitled "Look what I have just caught". Featuring some of the fantastic catches from both here and abroad. Be amazed at the mighty Sturgeon, wonder how salmon fit into such small tins and then sit back, relax and absorb that warmth we feel with pike and a few special zander. Girls get Valentine's day, we at the Mighty 48 get Colin "Father Jack" Brett.
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March 1st - Dave Pugh
Dave is a hugely capable a very well respected lure angler fishing many different waters and targeting lots of predatory fish. For the Mighty 48 he will be presenting us with his Zander fishing from 1992 to the present and apart from some very nice fish he will show us around his tackle and give us all the in's and outs of how and why.
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CLUB CONTACTS
RO Chico Winterton-01526 397174 thewaits@btinternet.com
Dept RO Andy Starsmore-01522 509528 esoxandy66@hotmail.co.uk
Treasurer Sie Blaydes - simonb@gelder.co.uk
...............Chico..................................Andy........................................Sie...
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6. VENUE
We meet at The Stag's Head at 68 Newport in Lincoln. LN1 3DP
http://www.ukpubfinder.com/pub/14951
Talk's start at 20:00 arrive anytime before that.
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.SPEAKER ARCHIVE ..click it
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.GALLERY ..Click it
A small taster of the Gallery is at the bottom of this page
We have reached the max of 30 pics on the mini preview, any more and they want paying so new photo's are not appearing on the preview. Will have to sort something out.
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Recently two Lincoln PAC stalwarts have appeared in the "Under the skin" interviews in Pikelines- Graham Slater in PL 113 and Simon Blaydes in PL114. Both are very self effacing but very accomplished anglers, both showed a great passion for both pike and piking-jolly well done chaps!
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....The Slater issue............................The Blaydes issue
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LOCAL SHOPS
Many people seem to ask about shops and where to buy items of pike tackle. With the advent of the internet and "deals" all over the place we often forget what is on our doorstep. If nobody uses them they will be gone. Below is a small list of shops in the area. I stress that they are in no particular order and they have no "deal" with us, just don't want to lose them. If I have missed any out let me know.
Castaway tackle- Chieftain way Lincoln- castaway
Fishing Tackle Direct-25 Westfield Ave Goole. 01405 767614
Harrison's tackle-55 Croft Street Lincoln- harrisons
Short Ferry Angling-Ferry road Fiskerton- endtackle
The Tackle-shop-Bridge road, Gainsborough.- thetackle-shop
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LOCAL WATERS/CONTROLING CLUBS
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NEWLY PUBLISHED PIKE BOOKS
Pikers and pike-fishing books just seem to go together but once small runs are exhausted it gets crazy money time on Fleabay.
BIG WATER PIKE FISHING -Another classic from Neville Fickling and friends, sections from Scott Davidson,Dave Kelbrick,Alistair Rawlings, Alan Ferguson, Geoff Parkinson & Jim Woolnough.
PAC30, MEGAPIKE-THE RETURN and THE PIKE OF BROADLAND Buy them soon or they'll all be gone.All three are fantastic books and more than worth a read.
THE PIKE OF BROADLAND - harper.co@talk21.com
MEGAPIKE THE RETURN - Buy here
PAC30 - Buy here
BIG WATER PIKE FISHING - thetackle-shop or 01427 613002
