THE ULTIMATE ANGLING BUCKET LIST

APPENDIX 1: AUDIO INTERVIEW ARCHIVE
This archive of audio interviews with a wide range of top angling figures is available both on the website
Fishing Films and Facts, and as a collection at the National Sound Archive of the British Library under
Collection No. C1486 Phill Williams Angling Interviews.
The overall collection entry is http://sami.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=CKEY7528353
The angling collection entry is http://sami.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/0/0/5?searchdata1=C1486{087}
Copies are also held by the Angling Trust, Angling Heritage, and at a variety of regional and county
archives according to the geographical location of either the interviewee or the interview content.
Podcast Interview 1: Ian Burrett, Luce Bay: Recorded in 2009. Humberside sea angler Ian Burrett
loved the Luce Bay area so much that he moved home there to set up the highly successful Onyermarks
charter business. Ian is also a great advocate of conservation and a founder member of SSACN.
Podcast Interview 2: Mick Riley, Sea Rescue: Recorded in 2009. Mick Riley, sole survivor of a
dinghy angling tragedy off Lancashire's Fylde Coast talks about the events leading up to that day, the
feeling of isolation and desperation of the situation, and of his eventual rescue. Given a hard time later
in the press, un-justifiably as it would turn out, here he puts the record straight and tries to persuade
other small boat anglers to be more safety conscious.
Podcast Interview 3: Gethyn Owen, Holyhead: Recorded in 2010. Gethyn Owen is an ex-Welsh
International boat angler turned successful charter skipper operating out of Holyhead. A measure of that
success is anglers fishing aboard his boat 'My Way' having successfully claimed the Welsh records for
tope, spurdog and smoothhound, which in each case was returned to the sea alive.
Podcast Interview 4: Frank Bee, Morecambe Bay: Recorded in 2009. Veteran angler Frank Bee
talks about his long commercial and charter fishing career, and how that influenced the charter angling
scene both at Fleetwood and in Morecambe Bay. Later, when he retired from chartering, he bought
himself a small boat, which amongst many good catches was responsible for the North West cod record
of 42 pounds.
Podcast Interview 5: Phill Williams, Fylde Cod: Recorded in 2010. As a dinghy angler who was
present and participated in the famous Flyde coast jumbo cod fishing era between the mid 1970's and
mid 1980's, Phill Williams takes a realistic as well as a nostalgic look at this probably never to be
repeated event. Many huge cod were taken very close in to Lancashire's Cleveleys shoreline. But it
wasn't a case of success guaranteed, as very often there would days with little or no reward for your
efforts, at times in weather and sea conditions at the limit of what the small un-sophisticated boats back
then could handle.
Podcast Interview 6: Tony Parry, Rhyl: Recorded in 2010. Tony Parry, skipper of 'Jensen II' based
at Rhyl in the summer, and Liverpool over the winter months, talks about the history and current status
of both fisheries, plus his thoughts on renewable energy in the form of offshore wind farms and their
direct and indirect effects on fishing and fish distribution.
Podcast Interview 7: Phill Williams, North Lancashire: Recorded in 2010. The top side of
Morecambe Bay on into the Duddon Estuary was once alive with summer cod, plaice, tope and bass.
Vast catches could be made there on a regular basis. Then it started to slip into decline. Here we look
at the area in its 1970's and 80's heyday.
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