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Posted by admin on March 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Reflections This is an article I wrote at the end of the 2008/9 fishing season, my first year of retirement and for the first time ever I could choose whatever I did and when I would do it. No school, no work, no rules, no restrictions. I was a free man. Every day was a [...]
Posted by admin on February 9, 2011 · 2 Comments
A ray of reflected sunshine catches the corner of my eye but I ignore it, I’ve grown to recognise it as the day’s worn on. It comes from the barrel of an AK47 rifle hanging from the shoulder of Serapio’s personal bodyguard. To his right the Ranger has one, too. Usually I’m stepping over these [...]
Posted by admin on December 22, 2010 · 14 Comments
Well there’s no mistaking it’s the pantomime season, is there? (Oh, yes there is…) But enough of Mr B for now! Welcome to the ice age folks. With a bit of time on my hands what else can I do better than treat you all to a bonus blog, filled with Christmas cheer? There’s even a good [...]
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Posted by admin on March 23, 2010 · 10 Comments
Sorry about the delay in publishing this March Blog but I’ve been doing far too much fishing of late and when time can be freed up the paid work has to come first. I have to pay the bills somehow! If the writing appears rushed or the imagery falls below the normal high standards I [...]
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Posted by admin on February 27, 2010 · 8 Comments
January was a bit of a mad month, wasn’t it? I guess the usual suspects must have had a miserable Christmas and decided to cheer themselves up with a bit of mud slinging and bad mouthing. Oh well, like I really cared as I boarded the plane. “Set the controls for the heart of the [...]
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Posted by admin on January 13, 2010 · 39 Comments
Get Out There And Give It A Go! In the last blog I showed it was quite possible to catch fish in these arctic conditions providing you are determined enough. Either that or you’re completely bonkers! But seriously, you really can go fishing in what appear to be terrible conditions and face one of angling’s toughest [...]
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Posted by admin on January 4, 2010 · 19 Comments
We roved around, rarely spending more than ten or 15 minutes in a swim. You either catch early or not at all and it’s certainly not a case of feeding until they have it…
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Posted by admin on November 14, 2009 · 18 Comments
The old fishing’s started to get a mite tricky in recent weeks. From the heydays and high days of summer when barbel proved as easy to catch as certain mugs on the Internet forums I’m reduced to scratching around for bites.
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Posted by admin on October 22, 2009 · 7 Comments
Whatever Happened To The Northern Specimen Group? A trip back to the Trent saw me on a completely different stretch where it’s rather big, wide and featureless. A nine metre tide added volume to this and despite only fishing for a few hours the level rose by a good two feet and dropped back nearly [...]
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