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DICK GAYNER
T h ey both shared other tal e s wi t h me o f th e i r ea rly ex p l o i t s ,
u s ually whilst we were ‘f re ezi n g o u r p a r t s o f f ’ d u ri n g l a te r
w i nter piking trips. Forgive me fo r s h ar i ng t h e m h ere , b u t t h ey
s t i ll give me a good laugh. T h e f i rs t c o n c ern s o n e n i gh t f i s h i n g
a t a small remote lake in S u r rey, wh en t h ey we re d is tu rb e d
by something banging and c ra sh i n g p ro g re s s ive ly a l on g t h e
b a nk towards them in the to t a l d a rk n es s . Vi s io n s o f s o m e t h i n g
“ o therworldly ” came to m i n d a s i t go t n e a re r a n d n e are r.
Finally, in the early hour s , B o b re me mb e rs l o o k i n g d ow n i n
t i me to see a large escaped p i g s t i c k i t s s no ut u n d e r t h e b ro l ly !
O n another occasion, Vic, h av i ng a n e n g i n ee r ’ s a b i li t y to f i n d
s o lutions to problems, gave u s al l a l a ugh o n e ex t re m ely co l d ,
wet night at the end of a p i ke f i s hi n g t ri p to th e Fe n s . I ’ l l l e t
B o b explain… “The windsc re en w i p e r m o to r o n Vi c ’ s Rove r
2 0 00 failed as we were abo u t to re tu r n h o me to S o u t h L o n d o n .
Vi c threaded a length of s t r i n g t hro u gh t he i n s i d e o f t he c a r
a n d out of both quarter ligh ts at t ac h i n g i t to t h e w i p e r b l a d e s .
S teve Church, his passeng er, wa s t as ke d w it h o p e ra ti n g t h e
w i pers by pulling left and r i gh t a ll t h e way ba c k to L o n d o n !
A f ter these events both Bo b an d S teve we re re p o r te d to n e e d
a change of underwear!
We all fished togethe r o n o c c a s i o n , a s we we re a l l
m embers of the ‘Pawnbro ke r s Sp ec i m en G ro u p’, a s l igh t ly
to ngue-in-cheek
asso cia t i o n
of
li ke m i n d ed
friends.
I t was a lot of fun shar i n g ti m e to g e th e r, an d we m e t
s o me wonderful peo ple b o t h f i s h i n g a n d s o ci a l i s i n g.
Vi c sadly died suddenly in h i s l a te fo rt i es , an d h is f i s h i n g t a c k l e
was sold/given to his assoc i a te s by h i s wi d ow. A l t ho u gh I k n e w
h i m reasonably well, we we re n’ t t h at c l o s e, s o n o ke e p s a ke s
c a me my way, and by that t i me c ar p f i sh i n g wa s n o t s o m e t h i n g
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