Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Big trout from the New River!
I found this photo and story in an old history of what was once Trinity Grammar School in Wood Green. Can it really have been a trout?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Thanks for reminding me of this, Colin. There's a newspaper article about it here.
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Permalink Reply by Colin Marr on
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Doh! I should have realised that HoL would have covered this already and I didn't search back to 2013 to find it. Thanks Hugh. Clearly, it was a trout and an interesting story too. https://harringayonline.com/photo/record-trout-caught-in-the-new-ri...
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside) on
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My parents house in Winchmore Hill used to back on to the New River. During the period when fishing was prohibited and the banks patrolled it was teeming with fish, including pike. Water Board staff even used to raft along the river with some sort of fish stun-gun and net to reduce their numbers. Dangling a rod and line over the fence usually attracted an abundance of sticklebacks.
I never caught an old trout, but I certainly dated a few.
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Permalink Reply by Oli Langford
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😂😂😂😂😂
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Permalink Reply by Richard Albert Watson
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When I was a kid in the late 40s early 50s when the public were not allowed on the new river my brother and I used to climb over the Hedge Lane bridge on a Saturday and just pick a couple of perch out of the river by hand, there were so many swimming about. We cooked them for our Sunday breakfast. Later on in the 60s I worked for the New River company (oddly enough you had to sign the official secrets act to get the job) maintaining the banks and clearing the reeds in summer with a chain cutter. This was a device with flat blades linked together, put in the rriver and operated by 2 men, one on each side, walking along and using a sawing action to cut the reeds which then floated down to a grid where they were raked out. I remember coming back from lunch to do the raking out and there was 2ft pike basking against the grill. I had heard that they were considered a delicacy in the Jewish community and as our landlady was Jewish I decided to hook it out with the big wooden rake we used. To my everlasting shame I hooked it out on to the bank and killed it. When I presented it to the landlady after I got home from work she said "I don't eat fish. " I still feel bad to this day and I am 85.
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