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Posted by admin on June 29, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Isn’t it great to be back on the rivers again? Right now I’m filling my boots with barbel and chub, just because the novelty hasn’t quite worn off yet. I’m also inspired by the fact that they’re just so obliging and happy to feed in what some would have you believe are the worst conditions. [...]
Filed under Bob's Blog · Tagged with Barbel, chub, Daiwa Infinity, Idle, Improve Your Coarse Fishing, Kevin Green, Mick Brais, Mick Wood, River Dearne, Sky TV, tight lines, Trent, weed cutting, Wharfe, Wyreside Fisheries
Posted by admin on June 25, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The race is already on to qualify for the 2010 semi final on Monday 3rd May. Catch the results weekly in the Green Un newspaper angling column or search the archives here. Every match submitted to the competition will be reported in this section of the web site. Remember, it’s the match winner who goes through [...]
Posted by admin on June 25, 2009 · 11 Comments

At last the ’real’ fishing season is in full swing again so here’s a bumper edition of the blog for all who love their fishing… I forget to mention in recent blogs that I’ve been enjoying some brisk sport on a local canal where the bream have been quite obliging. The only trouble is I was pig headed [...]
Filed under Bob's Blog · Tagged with Adcock Stanton, Bag 'em, Barbel, Bodmin Crematorium, Bream, Centrepin reel, Charlestown, chopped worm, chub, Elips pellets, Ernest Hemmingway, Fisky's Fantastic Feeders, hemp, Idle, Mistral, opening day, pole fishing, silver bream, skimmers, Stainforth and Keadby Canal, stupid, Trent, weed cutting
Posted by admin on June 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I haven’t fished a match, as such, for more than a decade but a competition that did grab my attention was the UK Angling Masters Championships. What an event this was and how sad that it didn’t become a permanent fixture in the angling calendar. David Marle launched the concept at his Great Linford [...]
Filed under Books, Tales Of The Riverbank · Tagged with Anglers Mail, Angling Times, Barbel, Bob Roberts, Bream, Carl Garratt, Cheating, chub, Common, David Marle, Great Linford Fisheries, Great Ouse, Jan Porter, Keith Arthur, lakes, Match, Mirror, Nigel Brown, Paul Garner, Perch, roach, Sky TV, Tench, UK Masters Angling Championships, £1000, £5000
Posted by admin on June 13, 2009 · 3 Comments

John Wilson was awarded an MBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Here at www.bobrobertsonline.co.uk we’d like to congratulate John on the honour and recognition which he so richly deserves. Voted as ‘The Greatest Angler Of All Time’ by readers of the Angling Times in 2004, John has been making television [...]
Posted by admin on June 12, 2009 · 1 Comment

Welcome to the June angling blog. If you’re a new visitor then I hope you enjoy it. I try to tell it as I see it and occasionally inject a little bit of wicked humour but do beware, there’s an odd swear word here and there in the graphics if you pay close attention, so please don’t continue reading if you’re the type [...]
Filed under Bob's Blog · Tagged with Alderfen Fisheries, Anglers Mail, Angling Times, Barbel, Bob Roberts, Bream, Buttercups, Carp, closed season, Dean Macey, glorious sixteenth 16th, identity theft, Keith Floyd, Martin James, Matt Brown, Mesters, Ranunculus, RSPB, RSPCA, rudd, Setanta, Spam, Stu Walker, Tench, Tidal Trenters, tight lines, Wendy Lythgoe, Wyreside