Some will have realised, although many won’t, that I was away on  honeymoon when all airspace over the UK was shut down. It’s a tough life when you’re stranded in the Caribbean with no flights home, I can tell you! Anyway, we landed back in blighty this morning, appropriately on...

A Personal Message For Tony Rocca. With regard to the ‘doctored’ photograph of my wife in your latest blog post: You know, Tony, there are some rather inadequate people in the world. To all intents and purposes they appear outwardly to be normal, but they’re not. They’re disf...

Free 2010 Calendar So here you are, the 2010 Bob Roberts Online Calendar in PDF format. You can print it off, hang it on your wall, draw me a Hitler moustache, thick rimmed specs, a pair of devils horns or whatever you want! Call it a Christmas gift to go with the free screensavers. Happy New Year...

Are you’re tired of the boring desktop background on your computer? Then why not change it to one of these fabulous free backdrops? Setting an image as  your desktop background is easy. Step One: Place your cursor over the image you fancy. Step two: Right click on any part of the imag...

Update: 19th August, 2009. Having sailed round France, Portugal, Spain, Corsica and Sardinia in recent days, it was good to board a plane in Rome and head back to good old Blighty. A man can only take so much luxury before his mind turns back to fishing and football. When I’ve dealt with th...

These feeders are without any shadow of a doubt the best heavy duty feeders for use on big rivers that money can buy. The drawback is that everyone is hand made personally by Paul Fisk in his spare time. It’s just a bit of a hobby really, a hobby that’s getting out of hand! They’r...

John Wilson was awarded an MBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List.   Here at www.bobrobertsonline.co.uk we’d like to congratulate John on the honour and recognition which he so richly deserves.     Voted as ‘The Greatest Angler Of All Time’ by readers of the Angling Ti...

A thread on the Fishing Magic forum has made reference to an article I wrote a little while ago so I thought it might help if I published it again. I can’t for the life of me lay my hands on the original pictures and my limited web design skills mean that I’m unable to embed the charts i...

Are Angling Books A Good Investment? A little while back I reviewed Big Carp  reprint of Dick Walker’s famous tome in this column. The book’s publishing house, The Little Egret Press, does a fabulous job of reissuing old classics and bringing limited editions to the market by authors who the ...

Book Reviews Random jottings about some of the titles on  my book shelves…   Author: Richard Walker Edited By: Peter Maskell Publisher: Little Egret Press   Title: 50 Years On The Ouse Author: Tony Miles Publisher: Little Egret Press Hat’s off to Tom O’Reilly. Who, you say?   Well,...