Book Extract – Too Many Rods by Derek Stritton

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Too Many Rods – Derek Stritton “Too Many Rods” is the book Derek Stritton has said he always wanted to write and charts his fishing over a fifty year period. It also records at first hand some of the major developments in carp fishing during the 1970’s and 80’s, including both the boilie and the [...]

Dear Diary – Part Two

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Dear Diary - Part Two Following on from Part One, follow the exploits of a much younger Bob back in 1992 as he shares time on the bank with Kevin Maddocks, catches a record fish, helps Roger Mortimer to win the John Smiths Angling Festival Team Championships at Evesham and also gets some sound advice from Ken [...]

Dear Diary – Part One

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Dear Diary – Part One This article was originally published in David Hall’s Coarse Fishing way back in April 1992 and it was the first in a new series I wrote for the magazine. You could say it was a forerunner of today’s angling blogs. They really were halcyon days for me, a truly exciting [...]

Tales Of The Riverbank – Part 10

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And so began a writing career that has swept me along on a tidal wave ever since. Without Colin it would never have begun. He found that spark within me and fanned the flames. Previously I just wanted to catch fish, that’s all. I never even dreamed of writing or anything else…

Short Session Carping

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As a match angler back in the 1980’s I never really hankered after catching a big carp. Okay I would frequently pick up magazines and newspapers to gaze in admiration at covers that portrayed some very serious angler or other cradling what was, for the time, a huge carp. I say huge, but back in [...]