Derrick Amies is heading for King's Lynn

NORFOLK LEGENDS: Dennis Pye and a young Derrick Amies

We collared Derrick at the Convention and he's agreed to come and do a talk at one of our meetings and bring some of his memorabilia and famous dumbell floats along.

Derrick was taken under the wing of legendary Broads pike angler Denis Pye as a young lad. He went on to eclipse Pye's captures and catch a record pike. There's a full interview with Derrick from Pikelines here - it's an amazing story.

Derrick's methods and thoughts on finding pike are individual and fly in the face of many of our modern assumptions.

Yet few have tried the dumbell method of steering a livebait, which he perfected fishing the Broads with Dennis Pye - how would we fare giving it a go on the rivers and drains of the Fens..? 

Date-wise, Derrick's talk is probably going to be in December - check back for details nearer the time.