Has he been drinking? Nah! It’s my guess he’s just chomping at the bit to get out on the riverbank again… The opening day of a new season!  Ninety three days of temperate spring have passed and the anticipation of allowing oneself the freedoms to wet a line only serves to distil...

If we were allowed to go out fishing like real grown ups…  Would we ‘pile in it ’ in…Or treat them mean? (Not forgetting it is still rather cold at night)  An Article By: LEE SWORDS  Every once in a while my old mate Swordsey comes up with an article that even he realises will ...

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’...

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… ...

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 ...

  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...

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 adv...

Dear Diary - Part One They really were halcyon days for me, a truly exciting time when the magazine world was very different to the one we know today. Anglers were encouraged to write about their experiences rather than how to shot a float or tie a knot and in my humble opinion it meant the act...

In The Beginning… But he came back a year later because what I had to offer was exactly what Colin wanted and he wasn’t one to take ‘no’ for an answer that easily. I’d never written anything before this but once I’d opened Pandora’s Box there could be no go...

The following article was published in David Hall’s Coarse Fishing magazine back in January 1992. At the time there was no such thing as an in-line feeder so you could say this was quite a revolutionary piece. You might also recognise  the phrase‘Days And Ways’ which is used in ...