WORKING EVERYWHERE I got into fishing shallow with the pole down South on the regular sweepstakes Mick Toomer used to... Read More
Late Night Bites To mix my fishing up I left Norfolk, opting to head out in search of zander. I... Read More
I was never enthralled by the concept of the Broads, perhaps because familiarity breeds contempt. Because... Read More
FIRST FROSTS Scraping ice off the car for the first time this year, reminded me that tactics might need changing,... Read More
HALFWAY CANAL First outing was an exploratory session on the Half Mile section of the Grantham Canal at Woolsthorpe. This... Read More
WEEDY SURPRISE Matches were due to start next month on the Fossdyke Canal, so I took a run up there... Read More
BY THE WALL I had been working for Hardy and Greys for several years, the only problem being they are... Read More
A Love of Hard Lures THE TACTIC Growing up around boats and angling on the Norfolk Broads, I developed a... Read More
POWERHOUSE SWIMS Staythorpe power station at Farndon is a significant landmark on the River Trent in the Newark area, only... Read More
BACK ON THE CUT Canals didn’t figure in my fishing for a whole decade as they were too far away,... Read More
Chub: Trying to Track a Giant With the season well and truly under way, and the chub fishing steady, I... Read More
POPULAR PLACE I’d arranged to fish with a couple of mates at Staunton Harold Reservoir. Chris was already set up... Read More
Wet Weather. Short Sessions This past week we’ve endured rain, rain, and yet more rain. Despite having to put on... Read More
IN THE SHADE Weather forecasters were predicting bright sunshine and temperatures well into the seventies, so Willow Lakes at Foston... Read More
Hard vs Soft Lures A GREAT RUN OF SESSIONS The balance between hard and soft lure fishing has flipped on... Read More
A Triumphant Return After a little rest and recovery from the weekend’s competition it was time to head back out... Read More
Piking Problems Alongside tracking down perch we’ve been out targeting pike. Usually, October is a month full of insane action,... Read More
My winter’s pike fishing BIG LURES DOMINATE I started writing these blogs while in full perch fishing mode. When perch... Read More
Santa is a fisherman! Why wouldn’t he be – surrounded as he is by acres and acres of fish-filled lakes and... Read More
OFF COURSE My friend Steve suggested checking out a golf course lake just outside Lincoln, telling me it can be... Read More
TIME FOR A CHANGE Pellet feeders have been around for a long time, but like many anglers I have drifted... Read More