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  • 2010 - Mid-January Blog
    By admin on January 13th, 2010 | 39 Comments39 Comments Comments
    Get Out There And Give It A Go! Many commercial fisheries will have smashed the ice on their lakes and although it won’t be the most exciting days fishing you’ll ever have these heavily stocked waters will still produce - especially if you find where the fish are shoaled because fish d...
  • The Bumper 2009 Christmas Blog
    By admin on December 17th, 2009 | 12 Comments12 Comments Comments
    Can it really be Christmas again? Well, considering the local shopping centre has been piping the sounds of Slade, Mud and Greg Lake into the ether for at least two months it must be getting pretty close! Anyway, please allow me to wish all you regular blog visitors a truly memorable Christmas. ...
  • Tales Of The Riverbank - Part 11
    By admin on December 10th, 2009 | No Comments Comments
    Life Through A Lens   Oh My Gurd The video cassette had a little boom back in the early nineties, not that they ever sold a lot in their original format. Those who were involved at the very beginning soon realised there were much richer pickings to be had by shooting other subjects. In truth the n...
  • Tales Of The Riverbank - Part 10
    By admin on September 1st, 2009 | 4 Comments4 Comments Comments
    So, You Want To Be A Writer?   Life’s A Box Of Chocolates It’s a fair bet that my old English teacher would be gobsmacked to learn that since turning my back on the Percy Jackson Grammar School I’ve somehow risen to the heady heights of becoming a published author. I hated school. It’s not ...
  • August 2009 Blog
    By admin on August 5th, 2009 | 8 Comments8 Comments Comments
    In four trips based around match hours I’ve bagged up. Not once have I started fishing before 10am and most days I’m home for tea yet 46 barbel have graced my net. Sometimes it’s been hard to keep two rods in the water. Take last week. I decided to fish an afternoon session, just ...
  • Tales Of The Riverbank - Part Nine
    By admin on June 14th, 2009 | No Comments Comments
    I haven’t fished a match, as such, for more than a decade but a competition that did grab my attention was the UK Angling Masters Championships. What an event this was and how sad that it didn’t become a permanent fixture in the angling calendar.     The invitees included the winner of each o...
  • June 2009 Blog
    By admin on June 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment1 Comment Comments
    Welcome to the June angling blog. If you’re a new visitor then I hope you enjoy it. I try to tell it as I see it and occasionally inject a little bit of wicked humour but do beware, there’s an odd swear word here and there in the graphics if you pay close attention, so please don...
  • Early March Blog
    By admin on March 7th, 2009 | 1 Comment1 Comment Comments
      According to the story a huge majority ‘of readers polled’ want to see a change to the closed season on rivers and apparently 100 per cent of National Front members prefer white to black while turkeys have just voted against Christmas…   Come on guys, perhaps it’s been a bit quiet o...
  • Book Review - Walker’s Pitch II - Little Egret Pres...
    By admin on February 20th, 2009 | No Comments Comments
      Title: Walker’s Pitch II Author: Richard Walker Edited By: Peter Maskell Publisher: Little Egret Press     The original Walker’s Pitch was published in 1959. It was an anthology of the best columns he had written in the Angling Times and was republished as recently as 2003 but that simply ...
  • December Blog (Part One)
    By admin on December 13th, 2008 | 3 Comments3 Comments Comments
    December Blog (Part One)   It’s arguably a bit early for writing the December Blog but I doubt I’ll be getting out too often in the coming weeks. With the weather so bitter right now and a bit of extra water to boot, some of it snow melt, the rivers are a bit tricky to say the least. B...