You might remember me from my infrequent posts at the old Carp.net board. Glad to see this new forum. I'm not the most prolific poster, but rest assured I' be lurking and learning. Up here in southern Ontario it's still pretty frosty so I have to make due with rig-tying, float making (and now this board) etc. to satisfy my carp-fever.
Waiting for Spring
Pete
Hello All!
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Ugly Pete
, Feb 14 2003 12:29 PM
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Ugly Pete
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Posted 14 February 2003 - 12:29 PM
"A true record of the life of a habitual carp-fisher would be a book to set beside De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, a book of taut nerves, of hallucinations, of a hypnotic state (it is possible to stare a float into invisability) of visions, Japanese in character, of great blunt-headed, golden fish, in golden spray, curving in the air under sprays of weeping willow, and then rare moments when this long-drawn-out tautness of expectation is resolved into a frenzy of action."
Arthur Ransome
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Cactus Carp
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Posted 01 March 2003 - 10:34 AM
Pete,
A good lookin' guy like you doesn't need too post often ! :-) Welcome!
Dean
A good lookin' guy like you doesn't need too post often ! :-) Welcome!
Dean
It ain't braggin' if you can do it.
We all will make the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Never as good as the first time.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Peace sells-but who's buying.
Fish smarter not harder.
Dean "Cactus Carp" Hill
"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Thomas Jefferson
We all will make the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Never as good as the first time.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Peace sells-but who's buying.
Fish smarter not harder.
Dean "Cactus Carp" Hill
"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Thomas Jefferson
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Ugly Pete
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Posted 01 March 2003 - 10:52 AM
Thanks Dean. 
Still waiting for spring...
Pete
Still waiting for spring...
Pete
"A true record of the life of a habitual carp-fisher would be a book to set beside De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, a book of taut nerves, of hallucinations, of a hypnotic state (it is possible to stare a float into invisability) of visions, Japanese in character, of great blunt-headed, golden fish, in golden spray, curving in the air under sprays of weeping willow, and then rare moments when this long-drawn-out tautness of expectation is resolved into a frenzy of action."
Arthur Ransome
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Keith
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Posted 01 March 2003 - 01:14 PM
Pete are you a lover of Ransome?
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Posted 02 March 2003 - 10:51 AM
Hi Keith,
Years ago, I found an old copy of Ransome's Rod and Line in a used bookshop and it's since become one of my favourites. You can see in my signature, how perfectly he captures the spirit of fishing. It took a while before I realized he was the author of Swallows and Amazons which I'd read and loved as a child.
I guess the answer to your question is yes.
Pete
Years ago, I found an old copy of Ransome's Rod and Line in a used bookshop and it's since become one of my favourites. You can see in my signature, how perfectly he captures the spirit of fishing. It took a while before I realized he was the author of Swallows and Amazons which I'd read and loved as a child.
I guess the answer to your question is yes.
Pete
"A true record of the life of a habitual carp-fisher would be a book to set beside De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, a book of taut nerves, of hallucinations, of a hypnotic state (it is possible to stare a float into invisability) of visions, Japanese in character, of great blunt-headed, golden fish, in golden spray, curving in the air under sprays of weeping willow, and then rare moments when this long-drawn-out tautness of expectation is resolved into a frenzy of action."
Arthur Ransome
Arthur Ransome
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Keith
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Posted 02 March 2003 - 01:07 PM
I have to agree Pete that Ransome perfectly captures the "essence" of fish and especially carp fishing.
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Cactus Carp
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Posted 04 March 2003 - 06:56 PM
Pete-
is most of your fishing in rivers in your neck of the woods
Dean
is most of your fishing in rivers in your neck of the woods
Dean
It ain't braggin' if you can do it.
We all will make the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Never as good as the first time.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Peace sells-but who's buying.
Fish smarter not harder.
Dean "Cactus Carp" Hill
"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Thomas Jefferson
We all will make the choice between what is right and what is easy.
Never as good as the first time.
When seconds count the police are only minutes away.
Peace sells-but who's buying.
Fish smarter not harder.
Dean "Cactus Carp" Hill
"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."
Thomas Jefferson
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Ugly Pete
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Posted 04 March 2003 - 08:55 PM
Hi Dean,
There's plenty of river fishing up here below dams, river mouths etc. but also a lot of still-water fishing, in the bays and marshes connected to Lake Ontario.
Pete
There's plenty of river fishing up here below dams, river mouths etc. but also a lot of still-water fishing, in the bays and marshes connected to Lake Ontario.
Pete
"A true record of the life of a habitual carp-fisher would be a book to set beside De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, a book of taut nerves, of hallucinations, of a hypnotic state (it is possible to stare a float into invisability) of visions, Japanese in character, of great blunt-headed, golden fish, in golden spray, curving in the air under sprays of weeping willow, and then rare moments when this long-drawn-out tautness of expectation is resolved into a frenzy of action."
Arthur Ransome
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Carpazoid
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Posted 05 March 2003 - 12:43 PM
Hi Pete,
Are you in Toronto? I used to fish there every summer! I have relatives in Toronto, maybe one day when I visit them we can do a session in an area you've researched?
Tight Lines,
Are you in Toronto? I used to fish there every summer! I have relatives in Toronto, maybe one day when I visit them we can do a session in an area you've researched?
Tight Lines,
<span style='color:blue'><span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Enríquo</span></span>
<span style='color:orange'>Former Lewisville Carp & Buffalo Pres/ VP
Texas</span>
<span style='color:orange'>Former Lewisville Carp & Buffalo Pres/ VP
Texas</span>
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Posted 05 March 2003 - 01:06 PM
Hi Enríquo,
I'm in Kingston, around three hours east of Toronto. The closest carp-spot to Toronto that I'm familiar with is in The Ganaraska River in Port Hope. It's a fairly well known trout river, but a great carp river in the summer, with a unique scenic backdrop (a nuclear refinery) we always joke that's why the fish are so big. So send word and bring your lead underwear if you're coming down
Pete
I'm in Kingston, around three hours east of Toronto. The closest carp-spot to Toronto that I'm familiar with is in The Ganaraska River in Port Hope. It's a fairly well known trout river, but a great carp river in the summer, with a unique scenic backdrop (a nuclear refinery)
we always joke that's why the fish are so big. So send word and bring your lead underwear if you're coming down Pete
"A true record of the life of a habitual carp-fisher would be a book to set beside De Quincy's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, a book of taut nerves, of hallucinations, of a hypnotic state (it is possible to stare a float into invisability) of visions, Japanese in character, of great blunt-headed, golden fish, in golden spray, curving in the air under sprays of weeping willow, and then rare moments when this long-drawn-out tautness of expectation is resolved into a frenzy of action."
Arthur Ransome
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