Kings Weir is where Fred’s life journey with Barbel began, he caught his very first Barbel here in 1956  by accident and then resolved to catch them by design and get to understand them better than anyone else did at the that time.

In the days when Fred first fished at the Weir Arthur Newton was the Keeper, his son Bill followed and the weir is now in the hands of the third generation although Bill’s widow Barbara still lives there as do her Grandchildren.

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