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Posted by admin on December 17, 2009 · 12 Comments

Can it really be Christmas again? Well, considering the local shopping centre has been piping the sounds of Slade, Mud and Greg Lake into the ether for at least two months it must be getting pretty close! Anyway, please allow me to wish all you regular blog visitors a truly memorable Christmas. This months music widget starts atomatically so [...]
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Posted by admin on December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Flavour Of The Month Archie (Braddock) rang to say he was making a video about how he prepares his baits and flavourings. Would I care to top and tail it as a favour? At the time I was fishing Walt Bowers lake at North Muskham for carp and had caught some cracking tench [...]
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Posted by admin on December 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Are You A Qualifier? 2009 has been a fantastic summer for club match angling in South Yorkshire and the 293 names below stand as a firm testament to that. Every one of these anglers has qualified on merit to take part in the Green Un Club Match Angler Championship Semi Final next May. It’s certain to [...]
Posted by admin on December 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Last Gasp Christmas Orders: The latest date recommended by the Post Office for first class mail to arrive in time for Christmas is Monday 21st December. Kali Productions is committed to despatching every order received within 24 hours and we will be going flat out to service all your last minute Christmas orders. Theoretically an [...]
Posted by admin on December 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Dear Diary - Part Two Following on from Part One, follow the exploits of a much younger Bob back in 1992 as he shares time on the bank with Kevin Maddocks, catches a record fish, helps Roger Mortimer to win the John Smiths Angling Festival Team Championships at Evesham and also gets some sound advice from Ken [...]
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Posted by admin on December 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Dear Diary – Part One This article was originally published in David Hall’s Coarse Fishing way back in April 1992 and it was the first in a new series I wrote for the magazine. You could say it was a forerunner of today’s angling blogs. They really were halcyon days for me, a truly exciting [...]
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Posted by admin on December 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Chapter Four Life Through A Lens Oh My Gurd The video cassette had a little boom back in the early nineties, not that they ever sold a lot in their original format. Those who were involved at the very beginning soon realised there were much richer pickings to be had by shooting other subjects. [...]
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Posted by admin on December 7, 2009 · 2 Comments

Can you believe Christmas is almost here? I can’t. Where did the summer go? It’s another year over, a new one just begun and all that. No doubt lots of anglers will be dreaming of getting new rods, reels, poles and accessories amongst their prezzies but the chances are it’ll be slippers and socks again! [...]
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Posted by admin on December 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Free 2010 Calendar I was looking around for a nice 2010 Calendar the other day and couldn’t find anything I fancied so just for the hell of it I decided to create my own. And then I thought what the hell, why not share it? So here you are, the 2010 Bob Roberts Online Calendar [...]
Posted by admin on December 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment

The last bunch of screensavers we gave away proved very popular and I’m sure there are hundreds, if not thousands of computer users out there who now have pictures of barbel swimming around on their computer screens. Well, if you fancy a change, here are three more… Setting one of these images as [...]