GOOD TIMING Many years of match fishing, where I had to make the best of whatever peg came out of... Read More
The Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction takes place 18-27 March on the WTT’s own auction website. With 366 Lots,... Read More
Season’s End The end of another season of angling has drawn to a close. It’s a time of the year... Read More
MAGIC FORMULAS Going back to my early club days, I remember an older and wiser member spending most of a... Read More
The Girls Get It Done Having a free day, I decided to give some friends a call. I’ve been quite... Read More
These pictures from Monday have raised eyebrows amongst my friends, and indeed are impressive in their biblical, dawn-of-time way. Of... Read More
I relish chalk stream fishing when I can get it, though with reservations. Stocked fish of size rarely interest me... Read More
BEATING BIRDCAGES Some of the best swims I’ve fished have been downright awkward casting-wise, often heavily overgrown with foliage on... Read More
The Wild Trout Trust annual fundraising auction takes place 18-27 March on the WTT’s own auction website. With 366 Lots,... Read More
Ten Minutes of Magic It was time for a day out that I look forward to every year. A visit... Read More
So… there you go… a barbel every month of the winter, though I accept March might officially be the first... Read More
This is going to be nip and tuck. My goal of catching a barbel every month of the winter hangs... Read More
The Year of the Monsters 2022! More like twenty-twenty wooo! But I’ll dive into that later. This past week of... Read More
My Greatest Challenge Well here we are… blog 52! One whole year since I began documenting my weekly fishing. To... Read More
Neon, Turquoise and Green I ended the final few days of the coarse fishing season in pursuit of perch and... Read More
ROD HISTORY The first 13ft float rod I proudly purchased was a fibreglass Hardy Matchmaker. I spotted one in the... Read More
Over the past year, I have frequently highlighted the artists of one sort or another operating around the angling scene.... Read More
TOUGH CUT After the first tricky match on the Grantham Canal back in January, I wasn’t expecting anything different early... Read More
COLD IN TIMBERLAND When a mate invited me on an outing to an old clay pit, a picture of a... Read More
I’m glad that my piece on stocked trout yesterday raised an eyebrow or two. In many ways, as was hinted... Read More
Good to hear back on the grayling issue, and why rivers come and go with seemingly startling rapidity. Perhaps an... Read More