2010 – Late February Blog
Posted by admin on February 27, 2010 · 8 Comments

January was a bit of a mad month, wasn’t it? I guess the usual suspects must have had a miserable Christmas and decided to cheer themselves up with a bit of mud slinging and bad mouthing. Oh well, like I really cared as I boarded the plane. “Set the controls for the heart of the [...]
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Dear Diary Parts Five and Six
Posted by admin on February 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Back in 1992 I wrote a series for David Hall called Tales From The Riverbank – Dear Diary in which I recounted stories about what I’d been up to in recent weeks. It was arguably a template for the blogs we read today on the Internet. Here’s part five. Just click on the Image and [...]
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Dear Diary Part Four
Posted by admin on February 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Bob Journeys to the Severn and fishes with the legendary Ron Lees, takes in the Trent National and gets involved in a bit of Motorway carnage. Just click on the image below and the article will open up as a pdf document…
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Dear Diary – Part Three
Posted by admin on January 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Lets drift back to June 1992 and dip into a fondly remembered series I wrote for David Hall’s Coarse Fishing. This is Part Three. Search the site and you’ll find Parts One and Two. I’ll continue to upload more instalments as time goes on. For now, just click on the image below and it’ll open [...]
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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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2010 – Almost February Blog
Posted by admin on January 27, 2010 · 3 Comments

Last Gasp Scribblings… Sorry folks, not a lot of fishing in this offering. Quite frankly I’ve been too busy and even if I wasn’t, it would be difficult to find the inspiration while the stillwaters are so cold and the rivers high and coloured. But it won’t last and I’ll be out there strutting my [...]
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Angling Courses In The Wye Valley
Posted by admin on January 19, 2010 · 2 Comments

Wonder Of The Wye Breaks – 2010 Peter Smith and I will be running two very special angling courses on the River Wye during 2010. Each will last 5 days (4 nights) and be limited to just 8 anglers. Staying at the historic Caer Beris Manor Hotel at Builth Wells, we will explore the river together [...]
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2010 – Mid-January Blog
Posted by admin on January 13, 2010 · 39 Comments

Get Out There And Give It A Go! In the last blog I showed it was quite possible to catch fish in these arctic conditions providing you are determined enough. Either that or you’re completely bonkers! But seriously, you really can go fishing in what appear to be terrible conditions and face one of angling’s toughest [...]
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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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Tales Of The Riverbank – Part 12
Posted by admin on December 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Flavour Of The Month Archie (Braddock) rang to say he was making a video about how he prepares his baits and flavourings. Would I care to top and tail it as a favour? At the time I was fishing Walt Bowers lake at North Muskham for carp and had caught some cracking tench [...]
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