There May Be Trouble Ahead…!
Regular visitors can’t have helped but notice my web site has become a little unreliable in recent weeks, crashing on a regular basis. Fortunately it’s nothing to do with the site itself. The problem lies with an unreliable server which is being decomissioned today (Monday). Very little is available in terms of technical support other [...]
2012 – Early February Blog
Sometimes I wonder where the time goes. Is it me getting older and slowing down? Or is it true what older folks say, that time speeds up with every birthday? Or maybe it could be that I’m filling my life with amazing things and living it to the full… 300 Not Out! Then again, this [...]
Book Extract – Catching Memories by Jerry Hammond
Travelling down to Essex with Brian Skoyles recently our conversation wound its way around to other anglers and he asked if I’d met Jerry Hammond. To my knowledge I hadn’t but Brian obviously had because he’d interviewed him for a Carp World magazine article. “I’d say he’s one of the top ten carp anglers in this [...]
Caught In The Act – A Sneak Preview…
If anyone’s still wondering what Caught In The Act is all about then you can log on to the Sky Sports web site, go to the Tight Lines page and download last night’s show from the podcast section. By right clicking you can save it to your computer and watch the entire Tight Lines show [...]
Piking Guidelines – Part Three
More updates from those kind folk at the Pike Anglers Club. Just click on any of the images below and a new window will open up from my Scribd Pages where the original articles are stored. Because this allows you to open them up in PDF format you can increase or decrease the size or [...]
More On Otters, Mink and Ostriches
My article about the ten biggest threats to angling drew quite a response both here on this web site and on others, too, although you would be forgiven for thinking the entire article was about otters and the other nine categories were erroneous. Perhaps it’s because otters are currently flavour of the month, the threat [...]
Green Un Semi Final 2012
One or two anglers have been asking when I’ll be releasing the list of qualifiers for the Daiwa sponsored Green Un Club Match Angler Championship semi final at Hayfield Fisheries on Monday 4th May. Well, settle down everyone, here it is (as of 20th January, 2012). Please note, this is simply the current list and is published [...]
Caught In The Act – Update
It’s approximately a year now since Stu Walker and I launched into our Caught In The Act filming project. Taking everything we learned whilst making our barbel films and applying it to other species wasn’t too difficult but what began as an idea for one DVD has grown into a series of 4 DVDs, probably [...]
Wye Coaching 2012 – Sold Out
I’m afraid it’s bad news if you were considering joining up with me and Steve Pope on the Wye this summer and you’ve not already booked. It’s already a sell out! Despite running two courses instead of one, thus doubling the number of available places, every single one has been snapped up! I am running a waiting [...]
Ten Key Issues That Threaten Angling
In my last blog I highlighted a letter in the Anglers Mail from Dave Tipping. Dave may be an accomplished angler but he refuses to recognise the threat posed by otters in particular, but also cormorants. It sparked quite a debate in the comments posted by readers. To be fair the blog piece was a [...]
