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 ...

Welcome to my web site. Please feel free to have a look around. I’m sure you’ll find an article or two to keep your fishing juices flowing. I’ll be adding fresh material on a regular basis, updating my blog and chucking in a few chapters from the two books I have in the pipeline. ...

Alas as we get older we forget so much. Life is so rich and varied these days. We live in a world far removed from the one our grandparents knew in their childhood. I blame the sheer bombardment of information that rains down upon us. There can be no escape. Its as though we are fed intravenously b...

Chapter One Humble Beginnings Caught In The Net I can hardly remember a time in my life when fish weren’t important to me in some way. Perhaps it’s in the genes, after all, my father fished the high seas as a trawlerman but I never fished with him. He died when I was seven by which time...