Caught In The Act – Update
Posted by admin on January 19, 2012 · Leave a Comment

It’s approximately a year now since Stu Walker and I launched into our Caught In The Act filming project. Taking everything we learned whilst making our barbel films and applying it to other species wasn’t too difficult but what began as an idea for one DVD has grown into a series of 4 DVDs, probably [...]
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2012 – Early January Blog
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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2010 – End of October Blog

Ice on the car windscreens this morning doesn’t bode well for my trip to the Severn in a day or two. Guess we’d better get used to the fact that Winter is around the corner and the days of easy fishing on rivers are now probably over until next June. Oh well, mustn’t grumble, it’s been a [...]
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2010 – Mid August
Posted by admin on August 17, 2010 · 10 Comments

What a hectic time of year this is! Since returning from Cyprus I’ve appeared on Tight Lines, spent five days in the Wye Valley, miraculously met five magazine and newspaper article deadlines, dealt with a mountain of visitor emails to the site and as I write I’m making arrangements to visit the Angling Direct store [...]
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2010 – January Blog – Happy New Year!
Posted by admin on January 4, 2010 · 19 Comments

We roved around, rarely spending more than ten or 15 minutes in a swim. You either catch early or not at all and it’s certainly not a case of feeding until they have it…
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2009 – December – The Bumper Christmas Blog
Posted by admin on December 17, 2009 · 12 Comments

Can it really be Christmas again? Well, considering the local shopping centre has been piping the sounds of Slade, Mud and Greg Lake into the ether for at least two months it must be getting pretty close! Anyway, please allow me to wish all you regular blog visitors a truly memorable Christmas. This months music widget starts atomatically so [...]
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2009 – Early December Blog
Posted by admin on December 7, 2009 · 2 Comments

Can you believe Christmas is almost here? I can’t. Where did the summer go? It’s another year over, a new one just begun and all that. No doubt lots of anglers will be dreaming of getting new rods, reels, poles and accessories amongst their prezzies but the chances are it’ll be slippers and socks again! [...]
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See The Class Of ’96
Posted by admin on November 17, 2009 · 2 Comments

Your chance to watch Sky TV’s coverage of the UK Angling Masters 1996
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Effective Barbel Rigs – Part One
Posted by admin on October 15, 2009 · 12 Comments

Since appearing on Sky TV’s Tight Lines programme with Keith Arthur a few weeks ago I’ve received a huge number of enquiries asking me to explain in detail my barbel rigs and bait presentations. It certainly appears the programme made a lot of barbel anglers sit up and think. During the programme some footage [...]
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Tales Of The Riverbank – Part 9
Posted by admin on June 14, 2009 · Leave a Comment

I haven’t fished a match, as such, for more than a decade but a competition that did grab my attention was the UK Angling Masters Championships. What an event this was and how sad that it didn’t become a permanent fixture in the angling calendar. David Marle launched the concept at his Great Linford [...]
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