Weekend Sport Column – 8th September
The Fens Are Ruddy Fantastic There’s something special about the Fens that I love. Spreading from Peterborough in the north to parts of Norfolk in the east, Earith in the Continue Reading →
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The Fens Are Ruddy Fantastic There’s something special about the Fens that I love. Spreading from Peterborough in the north to parts of Norfolk in the east, Earith in the Continue Reading →
This Method Is Completely Quackers Looking back I reckon the most fun I ever had in fishing was during thosee years when I competed in club matches. This was in Continue Reading →
Break The Mould And Do Something Different The city of Istanbul assaults the senses. It bustles. The traffic is manic and the people, shall we be kind and describe them Continue Reading →
Sweet Success It’s said that when the going gets tough, the tough get going but sometimes an angler is better off taking the soft option. Don’t go on the attack. Continue Reading →
Top Action With A Pellet Waggler There are few more enjoyable ways to catch carp from commercial fisheries than with a pellet waggler. In theory it’s a simple way to Continue Reading →
Seed Sensation With rivers running low and clear you may be finding it as difficult to attract bites on conventional methods and baits as you did in the middle of Continue Reading →
Fishing With The Upper Crust If you were to read the gossip on the Internet fishing forums you’d be forgiven for believing the recent heatwave has resulted in terrible river 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 →
JULY 5th, 2013: ZAMBIA REPORT My rod tip vibrated and thrummed rhythmically as the lure worked deep below the surface. With a braid mainline you feel everything because there’s no Continue Reading →
June 28th, 2013: DRAIN TENCHING Warping, a method used by farmers to fertilise and enrich their lands, was introduced to the Humber region shortly after 1730 by a farmer called Continue Reading →
Sunday Sport Column June 21st, 2013: OPENING DAY BARBEL It has been described as the enigmatic prince of the river with good reason. Pound for pound the barbel is Continue Reading →
June 14th, 2013: CARP ON FLOATERS At last! I was beginning to think I’d never see sunshine again but the start of June finally delivered blue skies and much warmer 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 →
Here’s another tranche of articles that I published last year in the Sunday Sport newspaper. These bring me up to the beginning of the 2013/14 season, so, from here on Continue Reading →