Early April is a one of the trickiest times of year for the coarse angler. The rivers are closed, and that’s a farce I shall return to, while sport on Continue Reading →
Time flies. It’s a fact that we all need to remember. Knowing time flies is just about the only thing that keeping me going when the fishing’s as challenging as Continue Reading →
Angling has witnessed a huge shift in recent times towards fishing rather than catching and if that sounds a bit potty, let me explain. To many, fishing is about catching Continue Reading →
How does the song go again? That’s it, ‘Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful…’ Hmmm, Let It Snow indeed. At least we were spared Continue Reading →
The prow of the boat lurches skywards. For a second it seems we have defied gravity, then reality kicks in. What goes up surely has to come down and it Continue Reading →
By the time you’re reading this the curtain will have come down on another river season. Honestly, it steals up on us so quickly. We seem to spend an eternity Continue Reading →
With the coarse fishing river season now over and done with it’s time to find a new targets and what better challenge than catch a big carp. You may be Continue Reading →
Another month flies by and I have a dilemma – not so much what to include in this column but what to leave out. It’s been such a busy time. Continue Reading →
What a washout this winter has been. I’ve never known the rivers to be out of sorts for so long and just when the monsoon begins to subside the Environment Continue Reading →
I’m in shock today, but really I shouldn’t be. David Hall passed away this morning after a lengthy illness. It was not unexpected, at least not in my mind, yet Continue Reading →
Quite how Carol Kirkwood managed to contain her excitement as she announced the Environment Agency had issued more than one hundred flood warnings I’m unsure, but you couldn’t blame her. Continue Reading →