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Welcome to Lincoln P.A.C.'s (R.A.48) Blogspot.We are the 1st P.A.C. region to try this out and I hope that it is successful in letting everyone from our region and beyond know just what is going regarding meetings and more.
Each and every one of us has a real passion for pike and piking in all it's forms, some pikers chase our chosen quarry the length and breadth of the country, others are content in fishing locally on a few selected venues; whichever category you have chosen I would hope that you can find something of value from our region,be it from our Winter Speaker season or from our local members or the PAC nationally.
Piking is often all about solitude and the piker pitting his wits against our water's apex predator but even if your piking is conducted that way to meet with like minded individuals once a month can be fantastic way to broaden your outlook and pick up the odd trick here and there and that can only enhance everyone's piking and the enjoyment our sport brings.
Lincoln PAC meet from Sept.-April on the 1st Monday of the month at the Stag's Head in Newport Lincoln (see section 6.).We encourage everyone to arrive early, especially new faces, nice to chat before the speaker is on at 20:00. All welcome from 19:00.
PAC membership encouraged but not a prerequisite, we are here to talk pike and generally be social.
All abilities of piker are welcome, those just starting or thinking of piking especially welcome as we will point you in the right direction, help and assist you.
We welcome anyone with an interest in pike, even zandermen can come!
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ENTRANCE (speaker nights)
PAC members-£2.50
Non members- £3.50
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NEWS
NEXT SPEAKER
Colin Brett Feb. 1st
Colin comes to us with his highly acclaimed talk entitled "Look what I have just caught". Featuring some of the fantastic catches from both here and abroad. Be amazed at the mighty Sturgeon, wonder how salmon fit into such small tins and then sit back, relax and absorb that warmth we feel with pike and a few special zander. Girls get Valentine's day, we at the Mighty 48 get Colin "Father Jack" Brett.
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St Barnabas Fish-in
This year we were rather plagued by last minute "domestic" situations that meant our numbers were drastically down on the day, we did however get a few out to do battle with our "friends at Notts PAC. Despite the lower than expected turn out I hope that we can still pull in a reasonably amount for the St.Barnabas Hospice, whether you fished or not please dig deep.Full report on the St Barnabas Events section (bottom l/h corner of the blog.)
STOP PRESS- after last nights meeting a rough tot up and with some money perhaps yet to come in we have raised over £900 so that is fantastic.
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Retailer of the Month
I have decided to highlight one of the companies featured in our "Useful sites" section each month as they sometimes get overlooked, hopefully this will encourage you to check the others out too.
This month it is the turn of BILLY'S BLUE BACKBITERS pukka alarms for pukka pikers.
Check their site in the "Interesting sites product" section in the l/h margin
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SPEAKERS FOR '09-'10
September 7th - Gary knowles
See Archive
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October 5th - Steve Younger
See Archive
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November 2nd- Steve Ormrod
See Archive
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December 7th - John Watson +books
See Archive
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January 4th - "Sir" Peter Green & Mark Green
See Archive
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February 1st- Colin "Father Jack" Brett
Colin comes to us with his highly acclaimed talk entitled "Look what I have just caught". Featuring some of the fantastic catches from both here and abroad. Be amazed at the mighty Sturgeon, wonder how salmon fit into such small tins and then sit back, relax and absorb that warmth we feel with pike and a few special zander. Girls get Valentine's day, we at the Mighty 48 get Colin "Father Jack" Brett.
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March 1st - Dave Pugh
Dave is a hugely capable a very well respected lure angler fishing many different waters and targeting lots of predatory fish. For the Mighty 48 he will be presenting us with his Zander fishing from 1992 to the present and apart from some very nice fish he will show us around his tackle and give us all the in's and outs of how and why.
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CLUB CONTACTS
RO Chico Winterton-01526 397174 thewaits@btinternet.com
Dept RO Andy Starsmore-01522 509528 esoxandy66@hotmail.co.uk
Treasurer Sie Blaydes - simonb@gelder.co.uk
...............Chico..................................Andy........................................Sie...
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6. VENUE
We meet at The Stag's Head at 68 Newport in Lincoln. LN1 3DP
http://www.ukpubfinder.com/pub/14951
Talk's start at 20:00 arrive anytime before that.
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.SPEAKER ARCHIVE ..click it
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8.
.GALLERY ..Click it
A small taster of the Gallery is at the bottom of this page
We have reached the max of 30 pics on the mini preview, any more and they want paying so new photo's are not appearing on the preview. Will have to sort something out.
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Recently two Lincoln PAC stalwarts have appeared in the "Under the skin" interviews in Pikelines- Graham Slater in PL 113 and Simon Blaydes in PL114. Both are very self effacing but very accomplished anglers, both showed a great passion for both pike and piking-jolly well done chaps!
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....The Slater issue............................The Blaydes issue
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9.
LOCAL SHOPS
Many people seem to ask about shops and where to buy items of pike tackle. With the advent of the internet and "deals" all over the place we often forget what is on our doorstep. If nobody uses them they will be gone. Below is a small list of shops in the area. I stress that they are in no particular order and they have no "deal" with us, just don't want to lose them. If I have missed any out let me know.
Castaway tackle- Chieftain way Lincoln- castaway
Fishing Tackle Direct-25 Westfield Ave Goole. 01405 767614
Harrison's tackle-55 Croft Street Lincoln- harrisons
Short Ferry Angling-Ferry road Fiskerton- endtackle
The Tackle-shop-Bridge road, Gainsborough.- thetackle-shop
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LOCAL WATERS/CONTROLING CLUBS
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NEWLY PUBLISHED PIKE BOOKS
Pikers and pike-fishing books just seem to go together but once small runs are exhausted it gets crazy money time on Fleabay.
BIG WATER PIKE FISHING -Another classic from Neville Fickling and friends, sections from Scott Davidson,Dave Kelbrick,Alistair Rawlings, Alan Ferguson, Geoff Parkinson & Jim Woolnough.
PAC30, MEGAPIKE-THE RETURN and THE PIKE OF BROADLAND Buy them soon or they'll all be gone.All three are fantastic books and more than worth a read.
THE PIKE OF BROADLAND - harper.co@talk21.com
MEGAPIKE THE RETURN - Buy here
PAC30 - Buy here
BIG WATER PIKE FISHING - thetackle-shop or 01427 613002
