POPULAR PLACE I’d arranged to fish with a couple of mates at Staunton Harold Reservoir. Chris was already set up... Read More
BREAD PUNCH Punched bread doesn’t work everywhere, but when you do find a venue that responds to it, this simple... Read More
New Kit & the Sea Angling Classic AN EXCITING OPPORTUNITY As I’ve mentioned in past blogs, I really enjoy fishing... 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
My winter’s pike fishing BIG LURES DOMINATE I started writing these blogs while in full perch fishing mode. When perch... Read More
Hard vs Soft Lures A GREAT RUN OF SESSIONS The balance between hard and soft lure fishing has flipped on... Read More
Topwater Perch After exploring new venues on my road trip, and now back home, the urge to explore was still... Read More
BY THE GATES I’ve always been fascinated by the imposing locks on many of our waterways. When there is heavy... Read More
Chub: Trying to Track a Giant With the season well and truly under way, and the chub fishing steady, I... Read More
QUIVERTIP SCIENCE I like to have the top eye of a quivertip almost dimpling the surface when it’s calm, setting... Read More
MEETING THE ENIGMA I was told there was an angler who regularly caught big bream from a local reservoir, but... Read More
A very special season’s end A NEW PB PERCH Here we are, the end of our 2020-21 coarse fishing season,... Read More
Fishing with Friends THE THOUGHT PROCESS A simple session, catching up with friends on the bank. It’s something easily taken... Read More
TIME FOR A CHANGE Pellet feeders have been around for a long time, but like many anglers I have drifted... Read More
GOING SHALLOW I began the month with a few sessions on the Specimen Lake at Woodland Waters, where the huge... Read More
IN THE SHADE Weather forecasters were predicting bright sunshine and temperatures well into the seventies, so Willow Lakes at Foston... Read More
EXPLORING NEW GROUND Renovation work on my local Grantham Canal continues, with yet another lock brought back to life. I... Read More
HALFWAY CANAL First outing was an exploratory session on the Half Mile section of the Grantham Canal at Woolsthorpe. This... Read More
As a bit of a birder, I was fascinated by the recent spat over in New York over the snowy... Read More
A Love of Hard Lures THE TACTIC Growing up around boats and angling on the Norfolk Broads, I developed a... Read More