Semi Final, Hayton Lakes, Kingfisher Lake Strong winds and a spell of torrential rain battered Hayton Lakes on the most challenging of days when any pre-match hopes of big weights Continue Reading →
I am not a Liverpool supporter, nor do I support Everton, though my father was born and raised in Liverpool. It is only by sheer good fortune that I can say Continue Reading →
April’s a funny old month. It’s barely begun as I write this introduction and the river season still feels hauntingly familiar, barely over, practically clinging to my vest yet we’re hearing the Continue Reading →
Hurrah! It’s the closed season. Whoopee-doo! The miserable gits who’ve been talking sh*te on angling forums all winter have a very good reason to be happy. They no longer have Continue Reading →
I began drafting this monologue exactly a week before the Ides of March. How fitting. Means I’ll still be able to squeeze a bit of river fishing into the next blog. 😉 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 →
When it’s cold and the rivers are out-of-sorts, catching anything is often a bonus. Winter isn’t easy and it’s easy to become depressed. I usually try and mix things up a bit, fishing Continue Reading →
The damp and dank weather has final broken and we’re seeing rivers gradually falling back to normal winter levels. About time, too. I can’t believe it has taken until the Continue Reading →
I recently posted the following image on Facebook. It relates to a number of special events I was involved with 21 years ago in 1994. How time flies, eh? There’s my pass to Continue Reading →
Happy new year folks. Hope you enjoyed a great bah humbug season and have gone back to keeping the economy afloat and occasionally wetting a line – that’s if you can get near a river. Boy, what Continue Reading →
Merry Christmas folks. Fancy another blog? The thing is, should I, or shouldn’t I? Can I complete one in time? Who knows is the answer to that. If it’s newly Continue Reading →
Long time no blog, eh? Sorry. I’d love to blog more often but let’s be honest, doing it in an entertaining, informative and yes, occasionally provocative way, consumes an inordinate Continue Reading →
Scratching the Surface I first met Paul in 1996 at Great Linford Lakes, ironically the same place I had been introduced to Matt Hayes a several years previously. Paul was Continue Reading →
From the foreword by Bob Church: “My good friend Mike Green is a great and true all-round angler, being as happy with a spinning or jerk rod as he is Continue Reading →
From the foreword by Des Taylor: “A ‘river pike’ book was long overdue, for since the John Sidley classic ‘River Piking’ of 1987, there has been very little written about Continue Reading →