Days In The Emirates – Martin James
In this, the fourth and final extract kindly provided by Martin James from his cracking book, At The Waters’ Edge, we follow his blue water exploits off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. I suppose it was around 1990 when I first visited the United Arab Emirates. As usual on my travels, I had all the [...]
An Appeal By John Wilson MBE – Will You Help?
As you know, I met up with John Wilson the other day and he was telling me about a project he’s involved with in the Predation Action Group. Essentially he’s prepared a dossier recording how his local waters and businesses have been affected by cormorants and otters and he’s asking if other anglers around the country [...]
Spring Fly-Fishing – with Martin James
This third extract from Martin James’s excellent book, At The Waters’ Edge, sees the host of Radio Lancashire’s own angling programme tackling up for some spring trout fishing… The coarse-fishing season ended on 14 March, a new trout season commenced the next day in Lancashire, while over the border in the white rose county of Yorkshire [...]
The Andaman Adventure – 2011
I did hint a while back that I had a very special trip coming up. Well, it was three very excited anglers who checked in their luggage at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 as we headed first for Delhi, then Calcutta and onwards to Port Blair on the far edge of the Bay of Bengal. Destination, the [...]
Reflections
Reflections This is an article I wrote at the end of the 2008/9 fishing season, my first year of retirement and for the first time ever I could choose whatever I did and when I would do it. No school, no work, no rules, no restrictions. I was a free man. Every day was a [...]
Cool Chub And A Belting Barbel – Martin James
Radio Broadcaster and widely travelled angler, Martin James gives us another extract from his excellent new book, Caught At The Water’s Edge… It all started when I got a telephone call from a fellow presenter at BBC Radio Lancashire who told me that comedian singer song-writer, Phil Cool wanted to meet me. I said, “Tell [...]
Back End Barbel
As we neared the end of a recent season I sat down with three of my fellow Don Valley Specimen Group (DVSG) mates and discussed prospects and tactics for the final onslaught. These are the musings of Matt Brown, Lee Swords and Adam Roberts… Bob: Hi guys, only a couple of weeks to go before the season [...]
Magnificent Murchison
A ray of reflected sunshine catches the corner of my eye but I ignore it, I’ve grown to recognise it as the day’s worn on. It comes from the barrel of an AK47 rifle hanging from the shoulder of Serapio’s personal bodyguard. To his right the Ranger has one, too. Usually I’m stepping over these [...]
Winter Chub Fishing – an extract from Martin James’ latest book, At The Water’s Edge
Martin James is the voice of angling in the North West of England thanks to his regular Thursday night angling programme on BBC Radio Lancashire. His latest book, At The Water’s Edge, appropriately named after his show, charts his fishing life as well as contributions from a number of esteemed guests. Packed from cover to [...]
Does Anyone Fancy Another Curry? (Part Two)
Does Anyone Fancy Another Curry? Part Two of Bob’s Mahseer Adventure on the River Cauvery As the days dragged by the fishing didn’t get any easier. Dawn broke at around 6.30am, Bablu would bring me coffee in bed, breakfast would duly arrive and then we’d load the jeep ready for another session yet rarely did we [...]
