2009 – Mid-September Blog
Posted by admin on September 12, 2009 · 4 Comments
Bream Record Smashed By The UK’s First ‘Twenty’ Looks like Mark McKenna has broken the British Rod Caught Bream Record with a spectacular fish of 22lb 9oz from Ferry Lagoon, Cambridgeshire. Weighed on three sets of scales, Mark settled for the lowest weight but it simply obliterates the previous record, a fish of 19lb 10oz [...]
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Winter Barbel
I don’t know how I would cope without television weather forecasts, especially the Sunday farming bulletin. I tend to tape that one because it gives me a pretty accurate idea of what the week ahead will bring. If, like me, you are in full-time employment and have no choice but to fish at weekends, evenings [...]
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