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...

So much to share and so little time. Afraid I’m racing to cram this blog in between fishing sessions and mountains of work. So much for a leisurely retirement. A commission to write a piece for Advanced Pole Fishing set me thinking about how much time I spend pole fishing compared to, say, 25 ...

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 ...

At last the ’real’ fishing season is in full swing again so here’s a bumper edition of the blog for all who love their fishing…     Either that or someone’s bought a voodoo doll and these twinges have absolutely nothing to do with my pole fishing and everything to do...

  Article comments from visitors are given top priority because their comments are normally checked for bad language or stupid threats before release. You’ve probably noticed that comments can be left at the bottom of each web page but there are a few lunatics out there and then there’sÂ...

  Tales Of The Riverbank - Part Seven   Adapting, Adopting And Improving   I wouldn’t have missed my years in club match angling for the world because this was my training ground, my apprenticeship if you like. I was a bit keen mind…     Weirdly, and I’ve only ever written about that...

      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...