Barrie Rickards
Barrie Rickards officially retired recently from the University of Cambridge, though is now Emeritus Professor of Palaeontology and Biostratigraphy at the University, and a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College. He is continuing research into the evolution of fossil groups and hopes that he might do a bit more fishing! Barrie grew up in Leeds and Goole in Yorkshire and fished in the East and West Ridings of Yorkshire as a boy. Some of his favourite angling haunts included the rivers Ouse and Derwent, as well as many clay and borrow pits.
Although Barrie specialised to some extent in pike, he fishes actively in most spheres of angling - coarse, sea, game and some big game. For six months Barrie held the British record for zander, with the first of the really big specimens caught in this country - the weight being 12lb 5oz. Despite this, the tench remains his favourite quarry and he has yet to catch a 30lb carp! He has been a club official of some kind or other every single year since 1955 and is currently President of the Specialist Anglers’ Association, the Lure Anglers’ Society and the Pike Fly Fishers' Association. He has represented anglers over many years on various consultatives associated with the Environment Agency and has been a consultant for Shakespeare since 1990.
He has published nearly eight hundred angling articles and twenty-seven books. His Medlar book Fishers on the Green Roads is a delightful novel about youngsters growing up in Yorkshire just after the Second World War. Barrie’s other interests include growing cacti, wildlife, opera and evolutionary studies.
Medlar books by Barrie Rickards:
Fishers on the Green Roads 2002
Richard walker - Biography of an Angling Legend (2007)
Although Barrie specialised to some extent in pike, he fishes actively in most spheres of angling - coarse, sea, game and some big game. For six months Barrie held the British record for zander, with the first of the really big specimens caught in this country - the weight being 12lb 5oz. Despite this, the tench remains his favourite quarry and he has yet to catch a 30lb carp! He has been a club official of some kind or other every single year since 1955 and is currently President of the Specialist Anglers’ Association, the Lure Anglers’ Society and the Pike Fly Fishers' Association. He has represented anglers over many years on various consultatives associated with the Environment Agency and has been a consultant for Shakespeare since 1990.
He has published nearly eight hundred angling articles and twenty-seven books. His Medlar book Fishers on the Green Roads is a delightful novel about youngsters growing up in Yorkshire just after the Second World War. Barrie’s other interests include growing cacti, wildlife, opera and evolutionary studies.
Medlar books by Barrie Rickards:
Fishers on the Green Roads 2002
Richard walker - Biography of an Angling Legend (2007)
