Dear Diary – Part Two
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
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 11
Chapter Four Life Through A Lens Oh My Gurd The video cassette had a little boom back in the early nineties, not that they ever sold a lot in their original format. Those who were involved at the very beginning soon realised there were much richer pickings to be had by shooting other subjects. [...]
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 [...]
Click Here To Buy Barbel Days & Ways Volume One
As you will see from the free DVD clips, Barbel Days and Ways provides a unique insight into the life and feeding habits of the barbel. Using state of the art technology, the cameras get closer than ever before to barbel as they feed, and then bolt as they feel the steel. Add to this [...]
Short Session Carping
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 [...]
A Day Out With The Lads
Sometimes we take our fishing far too seriously. Many anglers measure their enjoyment purely on the size of fish they catch and if you ask me that’s a recipe for burn-out if you’re not careful. One of the things that we all agree about in the DVSG is that our fishing has to be fun. [...]
Floodwater Barbel
Now and then I get this irresistible urge to put the record straight. Okay, it might ruffle a few feathers but if I don’t do it who else will? Anglers are worse than washer women for repeating old wives tales. Read fishing articles for long enough and you’ll hear the same old dogmas repeated over [...]
Early Season Gravel Pit Tench
My love affair with tench probably began nearly forty years ago when I witnessed the capture of a four-pounder from Arksey Railway Pond. I’d never actually seen one in the flesh, nor had I ever been close to a fish of such immense proportions. It was huge! Looking back, that one fish planted a seed [...]
Chub In A Cold Climate
Anyone who is a relative newcomer to fishing and reads the papers avidly will be labouring under the impression that seven pounds chub are pretty common and that sixes are merely run-of the-mill captures. If only that were true. The truth is that the headlines are dominated by a relatively small number of fish from [...]
