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Posted by admin on January 5, 2012 · 33 Comments

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 [...]
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Posted by admin on November 15, 2011 · 9 Comments

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 [...]
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Posted by admin on May 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The saga continues with just a few of my experiences with the Bewdley Brawler himself, Mr Des Taylor… Days With Des – “Are You A Whiteface Then?” At Christine’s funeral Des Taylor asked if I’d like to have a crack at his pool. He had the rights to a small water that held chub to 7 [...]
Posted by admin on April 8, 2011 · 4 Comments

Time for a blog update, methinks. Bit of an irreverant tour de force this one, characters galore and rambling through topics far and wide, but mostly all are fishing related. Do enjoy! My little ride round last week woke an urge to return and have a play on the Alderfen match lake. It’s a cracking lake [...]
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Posted by admin on January 17, 2011 · 6 Comments

As we finally emerge from the iron grip of the recent arctic blast perhaps it’s time to take stock of how our fish have been faring. I’ve heard reports of one commercial fishery being severely hit with thousands of fish carcasses clearly visible beneath the ice. Small, heavily stocked lakes will be hit hardest, I suspect. [...]
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Posted by admin on October 25, 2010 · 2 Comments

“How many times a week do you think I email the Prime Minister?” Few in the room doubted he was actually telling the truth. Lee Swords talk to the Barbel Society’s Yorkshire Region at Wetherby was in full swing. He’s outwardly confident, manic, eating his own baits, throwing samples out to the audience, raising laughs and putting a [...]
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Posted by admin on October 6, 2010 · 11 Comments

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 [...]
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Posted by admin on July 7, 2010 · 13 Comments

This may be a rushed blog – depends how I feel as it progresses but now the river season’s open my opportunities to sit down and write are being restricted for all the right reasons - and the desire to sit here bashing away at a keyboard when I could be fishing rapidly diminishes. I’ll do [...]
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Posted by admin on March 31, 2010 · 10 Comments

Early April Blog Greetings everyone! I struggled to get out on the bank for most of this week needing to catch up on a backlog of writing. Anyway, I’m back on top on that score at least. Friday saw me heading down to Lakeside Fisheries, near Ranskill. The owners have been good friends for at least 15 years [...]
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Posted by admin on February 27, 2010 · 8 Comments

January was a bit of a mad month, wasn’t it? I guess the usual suspects must have had a miserable Christmas and decided to cheer themselves up with a bit of mud slinging and bad mouthing. Oh well, like I really cared as I boarded the plane. “Set the controls for the heart of the [...]
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