A Sturgeon from St. Ives...
One
of our regular readers - Graeme Armes sent us this magnificent picture
from the 1920's.
We haven't got a lot of information but apparently the fish was shot
with a 12-bore shotgun at St. Ives sluice gates in 1924.
St. Ives sluice is approximately 4 miles from Earith where the river
goes tidal.
The young boy sitting at the front is Arthur Wallis who died this
year in his nineties. Arthur played a part in the St. Ives Angling
Club and also taught Graeme to pike fish some 30 years ago.
What a tremendous piece of angling history - which inspires a lot
of questions...
Who were all the people?
Will sturgeon ever visit St. Ives again - (sturgeon have been reported
recently in the River Thames)
What happened to the fish?
We'll probably never know the answers - but the photograph brings
a small insight into angling's historic and colourful past.
Our grateful thanks to Graeme for kindly sharing this piece of history
with us.
If you have any old photographs you'd like to share with our readers,
please e-mail
or post them to us.
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