I’ve owned a copy of this hand-written document for a long time, always kept secret, for it has long been a source of knowledge and inspiration… Continue Reading →
A where to fish guide for the River Trent including day, night and season ticket lengths, who to contact, tackle shops and more. Continue Reading →
I’m having the most fantastic season. It’s still only August and I’ve caught 500 barbel already! And it’s all because I use Fred Bloggs’ boilies with his special dip, only Continue Reading →
I don’t think there can be any doubts, the River Trent is by far and away the UK’s finest barbel river. There, I’ve said it. Number One. Top Dog. The Continue Reading →
The red tops are in a frenzy predicting an arctic blast that will dump a mountain of snow, chill us down to minus 10 and last for a week. Of Continue Reading →
As a regular Trent angler I never cease to be amazed by the behaviour of some of my fellow piscators and their presumption of entitlement. Nor can I understand what Continue Reading →
It’s Great…, It’s British…, It’s Me! It’s not every day you find you’re the ‘star’ – I use that word guardedly, of the best part of a whole hours worth Continue Reading →
I guess these angling images were shot around the mid to late noughties. Doesn’t really matter. Just a bunch of the memories from an enjoyable season. Perhaps more folk should fish Continue Reading →
The past few weeks have been pretty hectic to say the least. Seems a shame not to share a few of the highlights so I’m trialling this slideshow software. If Continue Reading →
Weekend Sport Column – 15th September Boys Own Adventuring There are those who will measure a successful days fishing by what they catch. There are competitive anglers who’ll measure it Continue Reading →
July 19th: Carbelling? It’s Not Cricket In Some Eyes Go back fifty or a hundred years and the idea of catching a barbel was the stuff of dreams and aspiration Continue Reading →
July 12th, 2013: EARLY SEASON BARBEL CARE The long awaited arrival of summer is finally allowing us to cast away the memory of a prolonged winter and spring but will Continue Reading →
At midnight tonight many rivers across England will echo to the splashes of heavy swimfeeders crashing onto swirling waters, hurled out in anticipation of the season’s first barbel (Boris, Bertie, beard, prince, golden Continue Reading →
I love fishing the Trent; it is a passion of mine that has never waned but often wandered, sometimes far off the beaten track of accepted wisdom and common practice. Continue Reading →
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 Continue Reading →