Weekend Sport Column – July 19th
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 →
A collection of articles covering fishing at home and abroad
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 →
Back in 2013 the Sunday Sport Newspaper launched an angling column and invited me to be their star columnist. It was an odd feeling. These are not opportunities that come your way Continue Reading →
I was asked by Martin Salter if I might write a piece about the closed season for the Angling Trust web site. Of course I obliged. After all I hold Continue Reading →
I was disappointed to hear that Keith Arthur has given up his role as the presenter of ‘Fisherman’s Blues’ on TalkSPORT radio although you cannot blame him. Bad enough his show had been slashed Continue Reading →
I had Ron Clay on the phone this week. Aparently there’s an article in the current issue of Coarse Angler Today arguing there is no north/south divide in angling. Now Continue Reading →
It is with regret I have to announce the sad passing of a friend I held dear. Kevin Green might have been 20 years younger than I but he was Continue Reading →
Welcome to the new-look Bob Roberts Online web site. Shocking weather and dismal prospects for the season’s end left me in need of an inspiration boost so I’m bringing forward next Continue Reading →