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LEE GRIFFIN
BILL
DICK
PAUL
PHILLIPS
WILKINSON
GAYNER
e a ch other, but if they did , t h ere wa s t h at m u t u a l re s p e c t to
l e ave that swim be – somet h i n g l a ck i n g i n to d ay ’ s s ce n e – a b i t
o f good old-fashioned carp e ti q u e tte .
I will try to remember a ll o f t he sw i ms , a n d i f I m i s s a ny,
I am sure Stud or Phil wi l l p i ck m e u p o n i t . S t ar t i n g o n t h e
Ho use Bank, the Reeds fol lowe d by t he G ate Sw i m , t h e B e n c h ,
G e rties, House Willow, L ee ’ s Sw i m, D e ad Tre e , T h e Co n ke r a n d
S l uice, and the Field Bank le ad i n g towa rd s t h e wo o ds – F i el d
B a nk Reeds, Field Gap, the St i l e. T h e sw i ms in t h e wo o d s we re
t h e Monument , Slugs, Woo d s W i ll ow, a n d Pa d s a n d G a p .
I will also name the fish t h e b e s t I c a n a n d m o s t o f t h e n a me d
f i s h were the result of A la n D ow n i e, Trevo r Ch i n n e ry, Ch ri s
a n d Phil. I also named a co u p l e mys el f i n la te r ye a rs .
Mirrors
Spike
Egor
Lumps
Bumps
Bridgette
Paddy
Little Scales
Two Scales
Little Two Scales
Son of Ygor
Moonscale
The Perch
Woody
Glen
Brian’s Mirror
The Original
Banana Fish
Commons
Clare
Phil’s common (as I know it)
The Twins (two commons)
Long Common
Arthur Scargill
Maddocks Wildie (the common that Lenny
Middleton tested the hair rig on)
The Koi
Peach Common
Houdini
Wildie Common
There were other mirro r s th a t s t ar te d to c o m e t h ro ugh i n
l a ter years that did not re ce ive n a me s . I n a m e d t wo m i rro rs
t h ough: Nude Mirror and a n o t he r o ne I c a ll e d B u b b l es , a s i t
h a d a weird bubble of skin n e ar i ts g i l l p la te .
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