New Film Clips
Posted by admin on October 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment
In the past decade I’ve been priviledged to travel half way round the world and back again with Stu Walker. Quite recently we began filming our adventures, just to create an unforgettable memoir. This in turn led to us making the critically acclaimed barbel Days And Ways series of DVD’s which feature some of the most [...]
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2010 – Bonus End Of September Blog
Posted by admin on September 22, 2010 · 11 Comments

Everywhere you look there are signs that autumn is approaching rapidly. Officially we’ve got another four weeks before the clocks go back but I’ve a sneaky feeling we’ll be well into winter’s transition by then if the misty mornings and fruit laden trees are anything to go by. Already there’s a tinge of brown to be [...]
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Effective Barbel Rigs – Part Two
Posted by admin on January 28, 2010 · 35 Comments

After reading Part One I’m sure that some of you were left thinking, “Is that it? Surely there’s more to it than that! It’s not fair! You must be keeping a secret up your sleeve…” But the plain truth is, no, I’m not holding anything back. There is no Holy Grail out there; there is no [...]
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2009 – Late September Blog
Posted by admin on September 18, 2009 · 3 Comments

September has been a pretty hectic old month and it’s no-where near over yet but I wouldn’t change a thing. Work continues apace on the next Barbel Days And Ways DVD, or should I say DVDs because we’ve already enough material in the can to fill two disks, but it has been incredibly hard this [...]
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2009 – Late June Blog
Posted by admin on June 25, 2009 · 11 Comments

At last the ’real’ fishing season is in full swing again so here’s a bumper edition of the blog for all who love their fishing… I forget to mention in recent blogs that I’ve been enjoying some brisk sport on a local canal where the bream have been quite obliging. The only trouble is I was pig headed [...]
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