2011 – Early September Blog
Apologies for the lack of site updates this past month but I’ve barely been home! Hopefully normal service can now be resumed again. The month began with a disaster. What kind of idiot puts unleaded fuel in a diesel van, eh? A distracted one in my case. There I was rushing around like an idiot, [...]
2010 – Early October Blog
It’s a bit short notice, I know, but if anyone fancies popping down to Brown’s of Leighton Buzzard on Saturday 2nd October I’ll be there representing Daiwa and you’ll also get a chance to meet the Korda team, too. If anyone would like their copies of the Barbel Days and Ways DVD’s signing I’ll [...]
2010 – Early September
Blimey, the past two weeks have been a bit of a blur and serious fishing time has been somewhat at a premium. However I have squeezed a bit of time in on the bank and although I’ve caught precious little of note it has been great fun and also whetted my appetite for things to [...]
2010 – Mid July
This may be a rushed blog – depends how I feel as it progresses but now the river season’s open my opportunities to sit down and write are being restricted for all the right reasons - and the desire to sit here bashing away at a keyboard when I could be fishing rapidly diminishes. I’ll do [...]
New DVDs Out Now!
If you’re a fan of barbel fishing you simply have to see these two new DVDs – they will change the way you fish for ever. The feedback from early customers has been phenomenal. One guy was moved to email us and say, ‘I’m a good barbel angler but if I’d seen these DVDs 10 years [...]
Effective Barbel Rigs – Part One
Since appearing on Sky TV’s Tight Lines programme with Keith Arthur a few weeks ago I’ve received a huge number of enquiries asking me to explain in detail my barbel rigs and bait presentations. It certainly appears the programme made a lot of barbel anglers sit up and think. During the programme some footage [...]
Fisky’s Fantastic Feeders
Since last Friday’s appearance on Sky TV’s Tight Lines show I have been inundated with requests for information about Fisky’s Fantastic Feeders. These feeders are without any shadow of a doubt the best heavy duty feeders for use on big rivers that money can buy. The drawback is that everyone is hand made personally by [...]
2009 – Early March Blog
Well, the end is nigh. Another week and it’ll all be over on the rivers for three whole months, unless of course you’re an Angling Times reader because they think that a complete non-newsworthy story and a puffed-up readers poll can change things. According to the story a huge majority ‘of readers polled’ want [...]
Fancy A Weekend Away?
I’ve been a regular guest at the Caer Beris Manor in Mid Wales ever since it hosted the Angling Writers Association Awards dinner nearly ten years ago. It’s a fabulous country hotel in a spectacular setting, nestling in a loop of the River Irfon just up from its confluence with the Wye. Perhaps it’s easier, [...]
2008 – July Blog
Cor, time flies when you’re having fun, eh? I must have had loads of fun in the first three weeks of the new season because the time has literally flown by. I mentioned in my last blog that I was making a series of DVDs with Stu Walker and this has taken up every spare [...]
