What a washout this winter has been. I’ve never known the rivers to be out of sorts for so long and just when the monsoon begins to subside the Environment Continue Reading →
I’m in shock today, but really I shouldn’t be. David Hall passed away this morning after a lengthy illness. It was not unexpected, at least not in my mind, yet Continue Reading →
Quite how Carol Kirkwood managed to contain her excitement as she announced the Environment Agency had issued more than one hundred flood warnings I’m unsure, but you couldn’t blame her. Continue Reading →
Were you ever a fan of American comics? I don’t mean Lenny Bruce and Robin Williams, I mean Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonderwoman and so on. In my youth DC and Continue Reading →
I needed a break. High water levels made it nigh on impossible to get near the Trent and the tributaries were no better. Match results from local stillwaters were pretty Continue Reading →
It’s hard to credit how I can wake up to a monsoon one day and snow the next but if it’s puzzling to me just imagine how cold blooded creatures Continue Reading →
The phone rang. It was James, “Hi Bob, any chance you could come and photograph a pike for me? I’ve tried Stu but can’t get hold of him.” “Well, I’m Continue Reading →
I received a huge shock this week. It came as the sun was setting on a local commercial fishery that I’ve been targeting for big perch. But before I get Continue Reading →
It doesn’t seem all that long ago since the politicians and scientists were getting all hot and bothered about global warming, telling us that the ice caps would melt and Continue Reading →
Going For Gold With most of the UK’s rivers running high and carrying torrents of swirling brown water I’m starting to get pretty fed up. January was the wettest month Continue Reading →
How did your river season end? Tough out there, wasn’t it? I cleared the decks as best I could in the final fortnight of the river season so that I Continue Reading →
Don’t Call Me A Prawn The vast majority of commercial fisheries in the UK do not contain pike. They simply aren’t a match fishing target which is the fundamental purpose Continue Reading →
It’s really scary how our lives fly by. This was my 50th diary article for Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine yet it barely seemed like five minutes since the first one. Oh Continue Reading →
In Pursuit Of A Modern Day Frankenstein My father never caught an F1 carp. Neither did Richard Walker or Bernard Venables, nor any other angler of that generation. They simply Continue Reading →
The winter of 2013 was a pretty grim one for those who had to deliver the goods on so many fronts. To say the filming proved to be challenging was Continue Reading →