Free Line 109 — October 2026 - Flipbook - Page 189
GRAHAM STEVENS
A RETURN
TO THE
THAMES
At the end of my last article ‘A Season on the Thames’, I wrote that the river
is never far from my thoughts and that I might return, and I did, although
I haven’t solely targeted the Thames since that 2012 season. These days, I
prefer to mix it up with my lake fishing on the likes of the Sheepwalk and
Ellis pits and more recently Frimley. You’ll never catch all the carp in the
river, so it’s always a work in progress. My old haunts on the river had got
busier and busier, and I fancied a change anyway. I had looked at some club
stretches, but they were as busy with anglers as the public ones, although at
least you don’t get the footfall of joggers, dog walkers, drunks and the like. It
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