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Posted by admin on January 5, 2012 · 33 Comments
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 [...]
Filed under Bob's Blog · Tagged with Anglers Mail, anglers paradise, Angling Times, Barbel, Bream, Dave Tipping, Des Taylor, Fred J Taylor, Golden Scale Club, Keith Arthur, Lee Swords, pike, River Don, Steve Collett, tight lines, Wensum, Zyg
Posted by admin on September 26, 2011 · 7 Comments
Where’s the time going? The sand seems to be racing out of the egg timer neck at a frightning rate and it’s all I can do to keep up. Guess it’s my brain’s way of saying slow down, Bob. This past fortnight I’ve been up to all sorts. Last Friday I had the priviledge of [...]
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Posted by admin on November 30, 2010 · 26 Comments
I dropped in on the River Don today at Sprotborough, just with a lure rod plus a bunch of rubber lures and spinner baits. The river above the weir is controlled by Rotherham UAF and it is stuffed with fish. The drawback is it’s deep, probably averaging 15 feet or more, but the bottom is littered [...]
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Posted by admin on October 25, 2010 · 2 Comments
“How many times a week do you think I email the Prime Minister?” Few in the room doubted he was actually telling the truth. Lee Swords talk to the Barbel Society’s Yorkshire Region at Wetherby was in full swing. He’s outwardly confident, manic, eating his own baits, throwing samples out to the audience, raising laughs and putting a [...]
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Posted by admin on October 6, 2010 · 11 Comments
Apparently, those who fish rivers on a regular basis will have had their prayers answered this week. After weeks of drought the heavens opened and suddenly the rivers were rising like the clappers. Eighty locations were put on flood watch but within 24 hours it was down to a handful. The water we get these days [...]
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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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Posted by admin on January 22, 2009 · 2 Comments
Catch up with what Bob’s been up to this month
Filed under Bob's Blog · Tagged with Barbel Days And Ways, Bob Roberts, bread, chris firth, Dick Walker, Helperby, Idle, John Wilson, Leeds and District ASA, River Don, roach, Rod Hutchinson, Swale, Tom O'Reilly, Volume Two
Posted by admin on December 30, 2008 · 14 Comments
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on December 8, 2008 · Leave a Comment
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 [...]
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Posted by admin on September 4, 2008 · 1 Comment
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 [...]
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