WANTED: The Fisherman

If one lives near a waterway and there are fish in it, then there'll be someone, no lots of people, with fish and fishing on their mind. On the Tamar, and along the two Esks, there is a multitude of these people who chase fish to pass time and to stock the larder. Many of these fishermen are pretty careless about whether or not they catch fish as they are there for the meditation really. So they say!

OK, given all that and that we know that bit of the story there are lots of stories that only fishermen know and tell each other – sometimes somewhat elaborated upon. Also, we need to know that there is a difference between anglers and fishermen. Anglers have rules and you are only an "angler" if you use a rod and reel and they are reputedly deliberately devious in their scheming to catch fish. They are however a part of a much  bigger club who'll do all manner of things to 'catch fish'. 

Fishing can be a bit like all-in-wrestling or gentlemanly boxing. Whatever, they are the world's 'fishermen' and there are supposedly 38 million people out there 'fishing' for food, profit and for fun.

Humans have been fishing since the Mesolithic period and that probably means that by now fishing is a primordial urge. But here PONRABBEL is looking for one person, a man or woman, who actually caught this fish. Apparently this fish was caught on the Tamar and apparently from the shore – and apparently that is very important. The story goes that its virtually impossible to catch this species of fish from the shore anywhere else in Australia – but you can on the Tamar apparently.

So at PONRABBEL we think that someone out there knows who this particular fisherman, or fisherwoman, is (was?) and probably they even know what bait they used and maybe even what gear they used. The chances of discovering the place it was caught are not all that good but we would like to know and better still we would like to tell everybody.

There is one clue that might mean something to someone. There is someone known as "BEEV" in the story somewhere.

If you do not know who this fisherman was BUT you do know something, preferably a lot, about someone else who has caught a big fish on the Tamar, or even one of the Esks, or a tributary somewhere, just tell us about him or her. Since PONRABBEL is new we haven't got the cash available to offer anyone a prize just yet but we are working on that.

IF you know who this person was who caught this fish, and you wish to spill the beans, please email ponrabbel@7250.net and we'll "get back to you" as they say in the world of advertising interesting things.