I dont fish many matches – its a form of angling that I’ve never really go into. However Salford Friendly Anglers Society are in the process of being granted the lease for the River Irwell Old Course in Irlam. Once a loop of the main river, now a still water after being chopped off by […]
Monthly Archives: August 2011
I’ve spent a couple of days on the road with Pete, trying to catch my first ever bleak, zander, motherless minnow and pumpkinseed. We nabbed 3 out of the 4 with only the zander evading us.This takes me up to 30 species for the season – busting last years record of 24 – with four […]
A few snatched hours on the Rochdale Canal at Boarshaw was my reward for a tough week at work. I fished single maggot over a bed of micro pellets at the end of a bed of sedges and caught well for the first hour, a decent tench, a decent skimmer bream and some nice roach. […]
My time on the bank has been severely curtailed this summer, but over the next few weeks work and family pressures are easing off and I should be out and about a bit more.My pal Tony has also been a shortage of fishing time, and has found that he is only able to sneak in […]
I often travel far and wide to go fishing – but yesterday evening I made my first ever visit to a lake which is less than two miles from my front door. A lake I’ve always heard people speak about, but one which I’ve always avoided as I’ve percieved it to be a trouble magnet.However, […]