Quick blatant plug for those who know me on forum and may be interested.

I am on tomorrow afternoon at 3.00pm thursday 2nd Feb talking about Bronze Age Rivers (3000 yrs ago), dugout canoes, eel trapping and the like.

Pete Carter one of the last Eel fishermen in the Fens is also talking. Not sure how much of my wittering will be edited in.

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Open Country, 02/02/2012

No evidence of fly fishing as yet from the excavations.

Best wishes

David

Thanks for the announcement DF, I'll look forward to that tomorrow.

A quick primer on eel traspping here

and a view of an interesting eel trap courtesy of Google maps - 51° 7'48.83"N 1°29'5.19"W - Google Maps

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Cheers Derwent!At work, but will have a listen on "listen again". Open Country is a great programme!

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Thanks for the interest and info.

A link with some photos of the excavation and some of the Bronze age logboats and other artefacts found in the river channel.

The Bronze Age



David

[QUOTE=Derwent Fly;1216127]Quick blatant plug for those who know me on forum and may be interested.

I am on tomorrow afternoon at 3.00pm thursday 2nd Feb talking about Bronze Age Rivers (3000 yrs ago), dugout canoes, eel trapping and the like.

Pete Carter one of the last Eel fishermen in the Fens is also talking. Not sure how much of my wittering will be edited in.

BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Open Country, 02/02/2012

No evidence of fly fishing as yet from the excavations.

Best wishes

Will catch that on saturday morning with a big mug of tea,just looked at the slideshow ,impressive !

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Winter grayling taking a year off !
Claret not just a great dubbing colour!

Listening to R4 at the moment, very interesting.
Billy.

They asked me to participate, but quickly realised I didn't have a clue what I was talking about so I got chopped

Interesting listen that, thank you

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