Colin Marr's Page

" On the subject of catching fish. I wonder if anyone remembers that around Guy Fawkes night in  the early 50s you could buy a small but very powerful banger called a blue flash?  We would explode them in the in the river and pick out…"

"I actually saw an American signal crayfish the other day! Not in the New River but in the Camley Street Natural Park on the Regent's Canal. I did see a very large fish in the New River near the West Reservoir once. It was a very brief sighting…"

"They were called walksmen. A photo and more about them here."

"Just to add, I lived in Palmerston Crescent in the 1960s and climbed over the fence with my friend where the river goes under Bowes Road, I was about 9. We dangled our line in for just a few minutes before catching a pike which I think was between…"

"Thank you for sharing those stories, Richard. There are plenty of American crayfish these days, but as far as I’m aware there are no trout or pike."

"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…"

"😂😂😂😂😂"

"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…"