2012 – Early February Blog
Sometimes I wonder where the time goes. Is it me getting older and slowing down? Or is it true what older folks say, that time speeds up with every birthday? Or maybe it could be that I’m filling my life with amazing things and living it to the full… 300 Not Out! Then again, this [...]
Piking Guidelines – Part Three
More updates from those kind folk at the Pike Anglers Club. Just click on any of the images below and a new window will open up from my Scribd Pages where the original articles are stored. Because this allows you to open them up in PDF format you can increase or decrease the size or [...]
2012 – Early January Blog
Crikey, where does the time go? You blink and another month flies past. Anyway, I’m back. Happy New Year. I hope you all had a great ‘winter festival’ and behaved in a wholesome politically correct way, making sure at each opportunity not to upset any of our fellow countrymen with our harmless religious and pagan [...]
Piking Guidelines – Part Two
Having the right gear when you go piking is essential for the safety of the fish but you also need to consider your own safety. These four articles have been provided by the Pike Anglers Club Of Great Britain and will get you started… Click on any of the images and the article will open up [...]
Pikelines Magazine
For those who may not be aware the Pike Anglers Club (PAC) produces four superb magazines each year, proper glossy jobs and well worth reading. It’s well worth joining just to get hold of the mag but if you’re wondering what the fuss is about then why not take a look for yourself. The PAC [...]
Piking Guidelines – Part One
Hats off to the Pike Anglers Club Of Great britain for allowing me to publish a whole series of their guidelines here on the web site. Over the past year I have gained a little insight into how the PAC goes about its business and I have come to admire its professionalism. Consequently I’m more [...]
The Case Against Pike Removal – Alan Dudhill
The pike is probably one of the most misunderstood fish in our waters and used to be routinely removed or culled by coarse anglers because it was thought to be eating all the fish. Of course this is no longer common practice as fisheries managers have learnt to accept that they cannot eradicate pike and [...]
2011 Mid-November Blog
Welcome folks to another load of drivel and boy, have I got plenty of it for you. Let’s start with the good news. The volume of abusive mail I receive at Online Towers from certain quarters appears to have reached an all-time low. Thank the Lord for that and long may it continue! Perhaps they’ve finally [...]
2011 – Early November Blog
Fishing’s been held up on the back burner for a while as I’ve spent the past week in Lanzarote. First visit there and maybe the last. It is certainly a strange island, rather like a cornflake. In fact I’ve seen more green on a moldy loaf of bread – or on the faces of certain [...]
2011 – Late October Blog
Only a brief blog this time, for which I trust you’ll be eternally greatful. There simply doesn’t appear to be enough time at the moment to fit everything in and fishing has to take priority when time is tight. I promised you more of Mole’s paintings so what better way to kick off. Here’s the [...]
