In search of Emeralds – Lee Swords

By way of a change, here’s a guest article by my good friend, top bloke, brilliant chef and ace angler, Lee Swords….   In search of Emeralds……Big fat slime covered green ones!   By Big Swordsey   Flushed with the success of the trip down south for crucian gold I have had a bit of [...]

The Making Of Barbel Days And Ways

Read the inside story… It’s barely a year since Stu (Walker) announced that he was going to film our sturgeon adventure. He’d bought a camcorder, read the instruction manual and was raring to go. We thought he was slightly mad. Surely you had to have some talent to make a movie?   The planning meeting [...]

Weighty Matters – The Scales of Justice

A thread on the Fishing Magic forum has made reference to an article I wrote a little while ago so I thought it might help if I published it again. I can’t for the life of me lay my hands on the original pictures and my limited web design skills mean that I’m unable to [...]

River Don Barbel

The River Don Catchment – A New Kid On The Barbel Block The River Don doesn’t exactly leap to mind when folk start talking about ‘great’ barbel rivers or even Yorkshire barbel rivers, but it has a great deal more potential than you might imagine. Indeed the true potential has nowhere near been explored yet [...]

In Search Of The Bronzed Warriors – by Lee Swords

A big thanks to Lee Swords for contributing the following article. As we all know he’s as mad as a bucket of frogs and nearly as good looking. Here he describes a session on a flooded River Trent. (Parental warning: This article contains mild swear words)   In Search Of The Bronzed Warriors   (it [...]

Barbel Days And Ways Volume One – Opinions and Feedback

                Seeing as so many satisfied customers have seen fit to email Stu and me with their comments on our DVD it seems only fair that we share them with you. This is just some of the things that viewers have told us:    I have seen the [...]

2008 – November Blog

      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 [...]

2008 – July Blog

Cor, time flies when you’re having fun, eh? I must have had loads of fun in the first three weeks of the new season because the time has literally flown by. I mentioned in my last blog that I was making a series of DVDs with Stu Walker and this has taken up every spare [...]

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