I took the family to the Algarve for a fortnights beach holiday and of course took a fishing rod with me. The kids just wanted me to play with them, so I obliged and didn’t do much fishing. I did however manage to find some decent accessible fishing at the entrance of Portimao Harbour – […]
Drop shotting with worms is always a productive method no matter what time of year or weather conditions What fish can resist a worm dangling in front I had a couple of hours in Manchester City Centre with my friend Phil – watch the video below to see how we got on. Up soon, a […]
I have never claimed to be an expert at Carp fishing They’re a species I’ve caught while fishing for other fish – and only occasionally have I visited commies with the specific intent of “bagging up” Trying to catch carp on my local pond, has never really attracted my interest – until recently … and […]
I had a couple of nice short sessions on the Rivers Irwell and River Roch at Springwater Park in North Manchester. I started off fishing lures in the shallow fast runs, thinking that the fish might be in the oxygenated water,,, but I was wrong. The trout were lurking in the shady, slow deeper water, […]
United Utilities have published their “real time” storm sewage discharge map. Storm overflow map | United Utilities – Better Rivers First thing – its not in real time – there is a delay between events taking place and this map updating – I still have to work out what the average time lag is. Second […]
I’ve been prowling the house like a caged beast these past few months. My local rivers have been bank high and unfishable nearly all winter, the wind and rain has been incessant, and my mojo for fishing in cold, wet, windy horrible conditions non existent. At last there’s been an orange warmth emitting blob in […]
Am getting the fishing itch again, and again but there’s been so much rain this winter that river levels are consistently too high, and it will need at least 2 weeks of dry weather for them to come back to fishable condition. That said, when you have an itch,,,, it needs to be scratched. So […]
I fancied a bit of a change, and thought a quick trip over the Pennines to Huddersfield chasing some ladies would be good fun. I’ve fished this bit of water in summer and done really well, and grayling feed all the way through the coldest months so why not. The weather in Manchester was cold, […]
Well there’s still a month to go before the end of the year, and I still plan on getting a bit more fishing in before the new year but wow… 2023 has been a year I’ll never forget for all sorts of good and bad reasons. Here’s a recap of my year. The fishing has […]
It’s been a while since I wrote about fishing, despite doing quite a lot of it. A bit of a domestic disaster with an extension that went very wrong had left me short of the extra time I need to write about or film and edit my fishing exploits,, and most of my tackle has […]
