2012 – Early January Blog
Crikey, where does the time go? You blink and another month flies past. Anyway, I’m back. Happy New Year. I hope you all had a great ‘winter festival’ and behaved in a wholesome politically correct way, making sure at each opportunity not to upset any of our fellow countrymen with our harmless religious and pagan [...]
2012 – Mid December Blog
Welcome dear reader. Let me begin this epic blog with a question; are you an optimist? Do you genuinely believe you’re going to catch whatever the weather, time of year, species you target and so on? Or are you, like me, a fatalist, fully believing that if things can go wrong, they probably will. Even [...]
2011 Mid-November Blog
Welcome folks to another load of drivel and boy, have I got plenty of it for you. Let’s start with the good news. The volume of abusive mail I receive at Online Towers from certain quarters appears to have reached an all-time low. Thank the Lord for that and long may it continue! Perhaps they’ve finally [...]
Tales Of The Riverbank – Part 17
Tales Of The Riverbank is a collection of stories from my past, a retrospective blog if you like. They are the truth as I remember it which means you may remember them slightly differently, if of course you happened to be there. In this chapter I look back affectionately at some special times in Anglers [...]
Tales Of The Riverbank – Part 16
Angling In Paradise With The 5C’s The Birthday Boy I couldn’t possibly write a book like this without including a few tales from Anglers Paradise. I first went there in March 1992 and I was supposed to be going with Kevin Maddocks but he cried off at the eleventh hour so I detoured via Remenham and picked [...]
2011 – Early January
Well, let me open by wishing all you reprobates a sincere and happy new year. I’ll be doing my best in the coming months to keep up the hard work and to entertain you along the way. I’ll also end up upsetting a few folk but that’s life I’m afraid. You don’t make an omelette [...]
2010 – End Of November Bonus Blog
As we roll headlong into December the fishing isn’t getting any easier but nagging away at the back of my consciousness is the certain knowledge that it’ll get a lot harder before things improve. I spent a pleasant morning throwing lures for no return whatsoever, but I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The day had dawned grey and [...]
2010 – Early November Blog
I intended this to be a short blog but unfortunately I got a bit carried away. Nothing unusual there I suppose. You don’t mind, do you? Perhaps I’ll hold back some of the images from my latest trip to Devon and create a gallery next time. Time constraints deemed I could only spend three nights at Anglers [...]
2010 – End of October Blog
Ice on the car windscreens this morning doesn’t bode well for my trip to the Severn in a day or two. Guess we’d better get used to the fact that Winter is around the corner and the days of easy fishing on rivers are now probably over until next June. Oh well, mustn’t grumble, it’s been a [...]
2010 – Mid October Blog
Apparently, those who fish rivers on a regular basis will have had their prayers answered this week. After weeks of drought the heavens opened and suddenly the rivers were rising like the clappers. Eighty locations were put on flood watch but within 24 hours it was down to a handful. The water we get these days [...]
