A book review by Bob Roberts I suppose I initially became aware of Tom through a series of excellent magazine articles in Coarse Angler magazine that had a great influence Continue Reading →
I don’t think there can be any doubts, the River Trent is by far and away the UK’s finest barbel river. There, I’ve said it. Number One. Top Dog. The Continue Reading →
It’s Great…, It’s British…, It’s Me! It’s not every day you find you’re the ‘star’ – I use that word guardedly, of the best part of a whole hours worth Continue Reading →
It’s really scary how our lives fly by. This was my 50th diary article for Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine yet it barely seemed like five minutes since the first one. Oh Continue Reading →
Sharp eyed readers will already realise (I hope!) that the weekly article I publish on here first appeared in the Weekend Sport newspaper exactly one year earlier. If you want to Continue Reading →
Like buses, you wait ages for a blog update and blow me if two don’t come along at once. Alas that’s the nature of being too busy. You have Continue Reading →
We all have to start somewhere, I suppose. I never held any ambition to be a writer, a photographer or a film maker when I left school at the tender Continue Reading →
Crikey, where’s the past year gone? Is it worth calling the police to report that someone’s stealing my time? I mean, a year used to seem so much longer than it does today. Continue Reading →
August was a relatively quiet month for me, fishing wise, mainly because I was always going to be involved in organising other anglers’ fishing or living the life of luxury aboard a cruise Continue Reading →
I fished my little river again yesterday. And blanked. That might seem to you like I had a tough day but I had anything but. I had a fascinating day Continue Reading →
The river season may be over but I appear to be busier than ever. This past week I’ve been out a few times with mixed results. A day on the Continue Reading →
Autumn is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, according to Keats. And this year has been quite special, hasn’t it? Driving through the leafy lanes of Norfolk last week was Continue Reading →
Ice on the car windscreens this morning doesn’t bode well for my trip to the Severn in a day or two. Guess we’d better get used to the fact that Continue Reading →
Welcome back to part deux of what must be the longest angling blog in the world. Mind you, no-one’s exactly complaining, are they? Well, that’s not exactly true. There is Continue Reading →
Can it really be Christmas again? Well, considering the local shopping centre has been piping the sounds of Slade, Mud and Greg Lake into the ether for at least two months Continue Reading →