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Posted by admin on October 22, 2009 · 7 Comments
Whatever Happened To The Northern Specimen Group? A trip back to the Trent saw me on a completely different stretch where it’s rather big, wide and featureless. A nine metre tide added volume to this and despite only fishing for a few hours the level rose by a good two feet and dropped back nearly [...]
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Posted by admin on June 13, 2009 · 3 Comments
John Wilson was awarded an MBE in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Here at www.bobrobertsonline.co.uk we’d like to congratulate John on the honour and recognition which he so richly deserves. Voted as ‘The Greatest Angler Of All Time’ by readers of the Angling Times in 2004, John has been making television [...]
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on January 22, 2009 · 2 Comments
Catch up with what Bob’s been up to this month
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Posted by admin on December 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
November Blog Stuart Walker and I finally launched our debut DVD, Barbel Days And Ways Volume One on November 1st. Much of the previous year was spent on the creative side – planning, filming, editing and so on. I’ve made a dozen of more angling films in my [...]
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Posted by admin on September 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Here’s the introduction to the legering book Take A Leaf Out Of My Book Bob Roberts This section of Bob Roberts Online delves into the popular technique of legering. Back in the early nineties, I wrote a hugely successful book on the subject but it is now long out of print, yet still in demand, [...]
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