Greetings and welcome to the Late May blog. Might I suggest you make yourself comfortable, perhaps with a drink. It’s a bumper blog edition and you could be here a while. First things first though. You’ve probably seen on the front page of the site that I’m running two angling cour...

Early April Blog The carp lake is ringed with bivvies in the better weather but there’s usually a bit of space at this time of year, especially during the week, so I asked if I might have a dabble for roach. Like most carp waters, there are plenty of other fish that no-one fishes for and I k...

Wonder Of The Wye Breaks - 2010 Staying at the historic Caer Beris Manor Hotel at Builth Wells, we will explore the river together targeting both chub and barbel on four quite different stretches. You will learn how the character of this fascinating river changes as we work down the valley. Each c...

100 articles is quite a milestone in a year I can tell you, in fact it’s practically replaced my full-time job but let’s not forget everyone who has helped or contributed in some way or other. Thanks guys, you all know who you are. And just for the record, a quick check of the Google s...

Greetings folks. I’m going to keep this blog mercifully short as I’m rushing to get ready for another filming trip. The next installment is written but it’s the resizing and laying out of pictures that slows down the whole process so it’ll keep till I get back. So what’...

In four trips based around match hours I’ve bagged up. Not once have I started fishing before 10am and most days I’m home for tea yet 46 barbel have graced my net. Sometimes it’s been hard to keep two rods in the water. Take last week. I decided to fish an afternoon session, just ...

Some Like It Hot… Work on the next volume of Barbel Days And Ways continues apace and the schedule is becoming demanding. It’s also pretty punishing in the heat. Stu and I slipped down to the Welsh borders hoping to fill our boots on the Wye but to say the conditions were against us woul...

Chapter 4   The Moving Feeder   The following chapter is as fresh and as relevant today as it was on the day I wrote it. Few anglers have ever, or will ever, master this technique. It is a crying shame really because the technique because most cannot be bothered with the little bit of extra effort...

      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 time an...

August Blog Where does the time go? I thought that retiring from my full-time job would leave me with loads of time to do everything I want to do but there simply aren’t enough hours in a week. So where shall I start? School holidays mean Sue and I can escape for a well deserved break (on her part...