Bob Roberts - Fishing information for the complete angler

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Welcome to my web site. Please feel free to have a look around. I’m sure you’ll find an article or two to keep your fishing juices flowing. I’ll be adding fresh material on a regular basis, updating my blog and chucking i...

Angling Courses In Th...

Wonder Of The Wye Breaks - 2010 Staying at the historic Caer Beris Manor Hotel at Builth Wells, we will explo...

2010 - Early March Bl...

Well, the news is that this winter has been the coldest for 31 years - even longer if you live in Scotland or ...

Tales Of The Riverban...

Flavour Of The Month At the time I was fishing Walt Bowers lake at North Muskham for carp and had caugh...

Dear Diary Parts Five...

Back in 1992 I wrote a series for David Hall called Tales From The Riverbank - Dear Diary in which I recounted...

2010 - Early March Blog
Well, the news is that this winter has been the coldest for 31 years - even longer if you live in Scotland or Northern Ireland. It has been a bit grim, hasn’t it? I’m writing this on the morning of Tuesday 2nd March. According to the Met Office spring starts officially on 1st March and r...
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2010 - Late February Blog
January was a bit of a mad month, wasn’t it? I guess the usual suspects must have had a miserable Christmas and decided to cheer themselves up with a bit of mud slinging and bad mouthing. Oh well, like I really cared as I boarded the plane. “Set the controls for the heart of the sun, cap...
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Climax Club Championship - Have You Qualified?
Have You Qualified? This is the definitive list of qualifiers as at 26th February, 2010. Pools must be paid in advance, in cash, at Climax Tackle, Dronfield. Here’s the list: Allan, John Conisborough Cricket Club AC Allan, John (Snr) Conisborough Cricket Club AC Allen, Craig Sprotbor...
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Dear Diary Parts Five and Six
Back in 1992 I wrote a series for David Hall called Tales From The Riverbank - Dear Diary in which I recounted stories about what I’d been up to in recent weeks. It was arguably a template for the blogs we read today on the Internet. Here’s part five. Just click on the Image and it’...
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Dear Diary Part Four
Bob Journeys to the Severn and fishes with the legendary Ron Lees, takes in the Trent National and gets involved in a bit of Motorway carnage. Just click on the image below and the article will open up as a pdf document… ...
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Dear Diary - Part Three
Lets drift back to June 1992 and dip into a fondly remembered series I wrote for David Hall’s Coarse Fishing. This is Part Three. Search the site and you’ll find Parts One and Two. I’ll continue to upload more instalments as time goes on. For now, just click on the image below and ...
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Playlist Compilation
As ever with shared files the odd track may not play but if you let me know about it I’ll either replace it or fix the problem. Just leave a message in the comments box at the foot of the page and I’ll do whatever I can. Here goes. Enjoy…! Playlist One - the first experiment Pl...
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Effective Barbel Rigs – Part Two
But the plain truth is, no, I’m not holding anything back. There is no Holy Grail out there; there is no top secret rig that only the most successful anglers use. What I described is exactly what I used for the vast majority of last summer and very effective it was, too, although it is not th...
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