![]() ![]() ![]() Sharp-flowered rush, creeping bent and water speedwell can also be found. More than 160 plants have been recorded across the site - mare’s-tail (uncommon in Worcestershire) can be seen throughout June and August. Visit in autumn for whitethroats, marsh tits and robins before returning in winter for flocks of long-tailed tits.ĭragonflies and damselflies inhabit the open water where levels fluctuate depending on the season (may be dry in summer). Mallards, moorhens and coots breed here and visiting birds include snipe and mute swans. Visit in summer and keep a look out for treecreepers, blackcaps and mixed tit and warbler flocks foraging in the trees. In spring visitors can hear chiffchaffs, cuckoos, bullfinches and yellowhammers. Peter died on his birthday, on 27th November, 2000.This seasonally-flooded gravel pit features open water, scrub and carr woodland and it's worth a visit at any time of year. Peter was also a great friend of the actor, writer and angler Bernard Cribbins. It provides a unique window on to one of the great angling friendships of the century, and an insight into the theories and ideas that they were bouncing off each other during that period. This book - The Stone-Walker Letters - was published, with the help of Peter's widow, Sue, in 2006. In his later years he worked on a book that he envisaged as another Drop Me A Line - a book of the angling correspondence between himself and Dick Walker. Along the Way followed this in 2002 as an account of his 'not necessarily biggest but best' fish. It is a book that beautifully reflects the spirit of the man - his gentle humour and generous spirit. In the 1990s he wrote an autobiographical book called Old Father Thames, in which he recalls his fishing adventures along this river. Peter wrote numerous magazine articles and twelve books, including Come Fishing with Me. Peter became the first President of the Barbel Society. He also held the record for rainbow trout for a while. He was particularly interested in chub and barbel, but fished more broadly than this and caught some legendary record fish: pike to 35lb, Thames carp to 28lb and chub of over 7lb. Beginning as a match angler, he became one of the new breed of specimen hunters in the 1950s and helped found the Oxford Specimen Group. The Thames was the river that he fished most, and became most identified with. His name ranks alongside those of Walker, Taylor, Venables and Yates in terms of the influence that he had on the anglers of the day. Peter was the Angling Correspondent for The Oxford Mail for twenty-eight years and a major figure in angling at a time of great change in the sport. His other passions included piano-playing, amateur dramatics, speedway racing and of course, most importantly for us, angling. Immensely talented in so many fields, in his working life, he worked for thirty-nine years as a bookbinder at Oxford University Press, and then set up as a taxidermist (his cased fish still being much valued today). Peter Stone was born on 27th November, 1927, in Oxford, a town where he was to spend all his life. Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name ![]() Librarian note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name Peter Stone was born on 27th November, 1927, in Oxford, a town where he was to spend all his life. ![]()
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