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 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 excit...

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 ...

 Strictly In The Shade In my latest blog I mentioned that I’d paid a visit to the Optilabs Laboratory in Croydon and confessed that previously I had no idea just what a complicated process making glasses is. Well let me shed a little more light on my day here and if you stick around till the ...

  During the programme some footage from the next Barbel Days and Ways DVD was shown and before anyone goes, ‘Oh, hello. He’s plugging the new release…’ let me say that it isn’t going to be available for quite a while yet, certainly not this side of Christmas and probably not before ...