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EXCLUSIVE
BLUEBELL LAKES
THE LAKES OF
DREAMS
I
t w as an honour to b e
ask ed to write ab o u t
my time at B lue b e l l
Lakes — in my o pin i o n ,
t h e finest day-ticket f ish e r y
i n the co untry
What To n y
a n d Lynne created all th o s e
y e ars ago is a testam e n t
t o what hard work an d b i g
d r eams can achieve. Th o u g h
t h ey are sadly no longer w i t h
u s and are sorely mi ssed b y
t h e entire Bluebell famil y, t h e
f i s hery continues to go f r o m
s t rength to strength un d e r
J i mmy and the team, w h o
h a ve modernised the facili ti e s
w hile protecting some of t h e
best fish in the country from
predation. I may have missed
the famous Benson era —
g r o wi n g u p r e a d i n g a n g l e r s ’
stories in the magazines was
w h a t f i r s t d re w m e i n t o f i s h i n g
— b u t t h e B l ue b e l l e x p e r i e n c e
still proved to be everything I
h a d h o p e d f o r.
After several years of my
best mate fishing Bluebell, I
finally gave in to his pestering
and agreed to join him for
a s e s si o n . Wo r k a n d yo u n g
c h i l d r e n h a d a l w a y s m a de t h e
4 0 0 - m i l e r o u nd t r i p f r o m Wa l e s
h a r d t o j us t i f y, e s p e c i a l l y
when my local water was
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