Days In The Emirates – Martin James
In this, the fourth and final extract kindly provided by Martin James from his cracking book, At The Waters’ Edge, we follow his blue water exploits off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. I suppose it was around 1990 when I first visited the United Arab Emirates. As usual on my travels, I had all the [...]
Spring Fly-Fishing – with Martin James
This third extract from Martin James’s excellent book, At The Waters’ Edge, sees the host of Radio Lancashire’s own angling programme tackling up for some spring trout fishing… The coarse-fishing season ended on 14 March, a new trout season commenced the next day in Lancashire, while over the border in the white rose county of Yorkshire [...]
Cool Chub And A Belting Barbel – Martin James
Radio Broadcaster and widely travelled angler, Martin James gives us another extract from his excellent new book, Caught At The Water’s Edge… It all started when I got a telephone call from a fellow presenter at BBC Radio Lancashire who told me that comedian singer song-writer, Phil Cool wanted to meet me. I said, “Tell [...]
Winter Chub Fishing – an extract from Martin James’ latest book, At The Water’s Edge
Martin James is the voice of angling in the North West of England thanks to his regular Thursday night angling programme on BBC Radio Lancashire. His latest book, At The Water’s Edge, appropriately named after his show, charts his fishing life as well as contributions from a number of esteemed guests. Packed from cover to [...]
2011 – Early January
Well, let me open by wishing all you reprobates a sincere and happy new year. I’ll be doing my best in the coming months to keep up the hard work and to entertain you along the way. I’ll also end up upsetting a few folk but that’s life I’m afraid. You don’t make an omelette [...]
2011 – Happy New Year!
Well there’s no mistaking it’s the pantomime season, is there? (Oh, yes there is…) But enough of Mr B for now! Welcome to the ice age folks. With a bit of time on my hands what else can I do better than treat you all to a bonus blog, filled with Christmas cheer? There’s even a good [...]
2010 – Mid December – Merry Christmas!
Hi Everyone. I guess I’d better wish you all a merry Christmas just in case I don’t get around to doing another blog before Santa brings you one of my DVDs. ‘What?!!!’ I hear you say, to the background sounds of stamping feet, ‘Only one blog in the run-up to Christmas? That can’t be [...]
Book Reviews
Well Christmas is coming and i’m sure a lot of wives and girlfriends will be looking for that special little present for you. Well, in case she doesn’t find it you can always point her in the direction of a good book. Or better still the Barbel Days and Ways DVDs… But enough of the [...]
Willow Pitch
Looking For That Very Special Christmas Present? I was recently asked to contribute a chapter to a special book that will honour the 10th Anniversary of Little Egret Press as a specialist fishing publisher. The book is called Willow Pitch, a collection of articles, stories, chapters, poems, photographs and art work from some of the [...]
2010 – Mid September Blog
The Trent beckons tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll be heading above Nottingham and fishing for roach but can’t say for certain just yet as it has bucketed down in these parts over the past couple of days. Fingers crossed it’s been isolated heavy showers rather than persistent downpours over a wide area. Saying that the EA River Line [...]
