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Posted by admin on September 5, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Oh well, I guess we’ve not had a rant from old Swordsey in a while so grab the tin hat and fasten your seat belts because you’re in for a rocky ride…! Smoke and Mirrors By Lee Swords The start of the river season has been ok for the most part, as I type this I [...]
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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 September 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Over the last couple of years I’ve been doing quite a bit of perch fishing, mainly using lobworms. One of the problems with perch and fishing with lobworms is that you can get dropped runs and run the risk of the fish swallowing the hook. The trick seems to be to minimize resistance while maintaining the most [...]
Filed under Articles, Perch · Tagged with chub, Delkim, eels, ESP, Fox Marker Braid, Gardner, hangers, John Roberts, Korda, Matt Brown, Perch, Solar Kit Off, zander
Posted by admin on June 7, 2010 · 7 Comments
Not so much a blog this time as practically an entire magazine’s worth of ramblings. This is the longest blog I’ve ever written but you’ve got to admit, says he smugly, it’s a bloody good read – and it’s free! If anything’s out of date already I do apologise but it was written a couple of [...]
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Posted by admin on September 4, 2009 · 3 Comments
Carbology Explained – by Lee Swords. Part 1… (of several…) Carbelling: The fusing of barbel fishing and carp fishing Carbology: The science of catching barbel using techniques evolved from those used in the carp fishing fraternity. Carbologist: One who involves themselves in the science concerned in catching the aforementioned fish using the aforementioned tactics yet [...]
Filed under Articles, Barbel · Tagged with Barbel, bleak, Bob Roberts, Bream, carbelist, carbelling, carbology, Carp, casters, chub, eels, Lee Swords, maggot feeder, maggots, River trent, roach, Tidal Trent
Posted by admin on March 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Are Angling Books A Good Investment? A little while back I reviewed Big Carp reprint of Dick Walker’s famous tome in this column. The book’s publishing house, The Little Egret Press, does a fabulous job of reissuing old classics and bringing limited editions to the market by authors who the mainstream press would overlook because [...]
Filed under Books, Reviews · Tagged with Ashlea Pool, Barbel, BB, Bernard Venables, Bill Quinlan, Bill Warren, breamroach, Chris Yates, chub, Clive Gammon, Des Taylor, Dick Walker, DJ Watkins-Pitchford, Dorst Stour, edmire, eels, Fred Buller, Fred J Taylor, Fred J Taylr, Hants Hampshire Avon, Jack Hilton, John Andrews, Kennet, Kevin Clifford, Len Arbery, Len Arbury, Little Egret Press, Mark Cunnington, Mr Crabree Goes Fishing, Perch, Peter Stone, pike, rudd, salmon, Tench, Tom Mintram, Tom O'Reilly, Trent, trout, zander
Posted by admin on March 2, 2009 · 2 Comments
Title: A Specimen Fishing Year Author: John Wilson Publisher: Little Egret Press Let us be in no doubt, John Wilson is an iconic figure. He effectively brought angling to the masses with his ‘Go Fishing’ television shows, while his trademark laugh and catchphrases quickly polarised viewers. John was the angling’s very own Marmite; you either [...]
Filed under Books, Reviews · Tagged with abstraction, Bream, Carp, chub, cormorants, eels, float Norwich, Go Fishing, John Wilson, LEP, Little Egret Press, Perch, pike, roach, Tench, Wensum, zander
Posted by admin on September 5, 2008 · Leave a Comment
There’s something delightfully indulgent about writing a book in which you are the central character, the glue that holds it all together. It would have been easier not to bother, after all, who on earth would want to read it? And then I got to thinking. I’d like to read it. And if I’d like [...]
Filed under Books, Tales Of The Riverbank · Tagged with Advanced Carp Fishing, Barbel, Barbel Days And Ways, bite alarm, Bob Roberts, Bream, Carp, Carp World, chub, Coarse Angler, Coarse Fisherman, Complete Book Of Legering, Daiwa, eels, float fishing, Goldthorpe, Green Un, Improve Your Coarse Fishing, legering, pole, roach, rudd, Tench, UK Masters Angling Champion, zander
Posted by admin on September 4, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on September 4, 2008 · 10 Comments
During the final weeks of the season it is probably easier to catch a big river perch than at any other time. Why? Because location is easier and feeding times are predictable. Big perch are nomadic in summer, as eager to swim in the fastest current as haunt the deepest eddy as they seek out [...]
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