2011 – Early January
Well, let me open by wishing all you reprobates a sincere and happy new year. I’ll be doing my best in the coming months to keep up the hard work and to entertain you along the way. I’ll also end up upsetting a few folk but that’s life I’m afraid. You don’t make an omelette [...]
2011 – Happy New Year!
Well there’s no mistaking it’s the pantomime season, is there? (Oh, yes there is…) But enough of Mr B for now! Welcome to the ice age folks. With a bit of time on my hands what else can I do better than treat you all to a bonus blog, filled with Christmas cheer? There’s even a good [...]
2010 Almost Xmas!
Bloody Hell! Where did the snow go? One minute we’ve a foot of the stuff and the side roads are sheeted in ice, the next it simply all vanished. Of course that means the rivers are rising at a rapid rate of knots, swelled with snow melt and only the hardiest and daftest anglers will [...]
2010 – Mid December – Merry Christmas!
Hi Everyone. I guess I’d better wish you all a merry Christmas just in case I don’t get around to doing another blog before Santa brings you one of my DVDs. ‘What?!!!’ I hear you say, to the background sounds of stamping feet, ‘Only one blog in the run-up to Christmas? That can’t be [...]
2010 – Early December Blog
I dropped in on the River Don today at Sprotborough, just with a lure rod plus a bunch of rubber lures and spinner baits. The river above the weir is controlled by Rotherham UAF and it is stuffed with fish. The drawback is it’s deep, probably averaging 15 feet or more, but the bottom is littered [...]
2010 – End Of November Bonus Blog
As we roll headlong into December the fishing isn’t getting any easier but nagging away at the back of my consciousness is the certain knowledge that it’ll get a lot harder before things improve. I spent a pleasant morning throwing lures for no return whatsoever, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The day had dawned grey and [...]
2010 – Late November Blog
With the Trent still high and carrying colour there was only one place to be and one species to target. Barbel. Unfortunately the river dropped a full four feet in two days during which gales had swept over the country depositing millions of leaves in the river. A week ago the hedgerows had been bathed in yellows, [...]
2010 – Mid-November Blog
Autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, according to Keats. And this year has been quite special, hasn’t it? Driving through the leafy lanes of Norfolk last week was simply breathtaking, the landscape a riot of golds, reds and browns although by the time you read this they’ll probably be a distant memory or [...]
2010 – Early November Blog
I intended this to be a short blog but unfortunately I got a bit carried away. Nothing unusual there I suppose. You don’t mind, do you? Perhaps I’ll hold back some of the images from my latest trip to Devon and create a gallery next time. Time constraints deemed I could only spend three nights at Anglers [...]
2010 – Almost November Blog
“How many times a week do you think I email the Prime Minister?” Few in the room doubted he was actually telling the truth. Lee Swords talk to the Barbel Society’s Yorkshire Region at Wetherby was in full swing. He’s outwardly confident, manic, eating his own baits, throwing samples out to the audience, raising laughs and putting a [...]
