Old Characters

[NEWKID 28,288]

Thought I'd put it up in the lurcher section as well, he was a good old lurcher man was Ivor..

 

 

Recently one of the old boys round here sadly passed away, Ivor was your text book poacher, weather it was rabbit, hare or salmon....

When I was a kid he had a lurcher called Lady, she was talked about as a good dog ( I was too young to know for myself) but it was because of Lady, that my early forays into hunting began.. Dave who was as close to me as my own father ( and who has also sadly gone) started out being taken by Ivor to watch Lady, they would Lamp hares and rabbits, the hares were sold to a dealer, I've been told and the rabbits were traded in the pub for pints... Dave wanted a dog of his own and got Susie, a collie greyhound ( same as lady) and that's the first dog I ever went with, she was a good dog and I remember that... She caught a lot of lamped hares and rabbits and was a good ferreting dog too.... Lady sadly died hitting a drinking trough whilst chasing, she was killed outright I was told... Salmon was Ivor's thing and I've been told by my dad that Ivor reckoned he had a snare hidded in a hedge on every lie up the river.... We had 2 salmon from him last year, he was always dropping something into Dads... Him and Dave used to run a gill net round a pool below one of he weirs, once after a decent nights haul they were carting a bin bag each up to the van when one of the bags split... This is on a quiet side road, ( but not far out of town) the salmon were slipping down the hill as they were chucking them into the van, so much for discretion that morning I was told that as the last salmon went in, the milkman turned the corner, Ivor gave him a Good Morning nod and smile and it was in the van and off...

Although I never personally hunted with Ivor I enjoyed his tales and the tales my Dad and Dave told me over the years, and in an indirect way he started my hunting path through Daves schooling....

He was a proper old countryman and unfortunately they're ways are being lost.......

Cheers

Kev

[mr scent 665]

Great read pal sounded like a right jack the lad

[sowhat 1,572]

Bang on

[paulus 26]

sadly these tales will become fewer and fewer as the years progress

[goldfinch2007 2,337]

r.i.p ivor.

[BIG E 752]

good read mate,good to hear those old tales

[whippet 99 2,613]

sadly these tales will become fewer and fewer as the years progress

too a certain degree .......yes

but i exspect you have some hunting exploits to tell the kids..............lol

i once had a rare up with a farmer telling him it wasnt his land lol.........i was told by the farmer who gave me permission that the farmer down the road is a cnut so tell him too fook off he thinks he owns everything .....................what a set up i got back to me motor after they were trying to follow us around all night ..........they kept there distance lol ,so i carried on like normal .........

back at the van i was fuming telling him it wasnt his land .................found out it was his land ,.....what a plonker rodney ,...............set right up ffs

i was nearly swinging ,.......embarrassing isnt the word.............lol

[Country Joe 1,411]

We used to have lengths of fence wire hidden, at all the best tree roots, but not snares,, we would bend the snare and shove it up the handlebar of the old bike, then put the handlebar grips back on.

brought back happy memories, the man who introduced me to the world of Lurchers, ferreting, snaring, and gaffing Sambos, sadly died a few months ago.

[NEWKID 28,288]

Cheers for the replies lads...

 

Whippet, your right.. We will have tales for our kids..... But there's something about some of these old characters, it was their life 100%, at times it would have been their only way to survive and make a couple of quid... There won't be many like that now I wouldn't say....

 

My grandad died at 74, which was a good innings for a chain smoking alcholic... At 71 he ended up in prison because he wouldn't pay his fines for salmon fishing without a licence.... His argument was, his grandfather had fished the river mouth without one, so had his father and just because the Irish authorities had now put a licence on what he could catch he didn't agree with it... On my visits to Blackrock, county Louth to visit him I went out and netted with him and my cousin, he was another old character who could tell you a story or two.....oh and the prison he ended up in was The Maze, he reckoned he met some of the nicest people in there he served 4 weeks, came out and carried on lol...

[Jay Lurcher Mad Foster 2]

Great read lads. Rip to the fallen ones... Live to hunt, hunt to live.

[the pikey poacher 1,157]

great topic mate here are a few names of some old fella's that lived for hunting and have sadly passed away r.i.p.jimmy hill / bert gripton / don suthers and ciral bicknall all great men and i bet a good few men on here know these lads and not forgeting the legend that he was old willy tough