Again, please accept my apologies for the lack of photos to accompany this post – i keep forgetting to take my camera with me, I can only download photos from my mobile phone onto my laptop – which has recently packed up. Once i get my laptop working again – i shall share some of […]
Author Archives: Mike Duddy
After being given information about a 200yd stretch of the river where 2 barbel have been reputed to have been caught already this season I spent an evening searching water with a few pints of maggots and my trotting gear.Despite being subjected to an all out assault by the rivers minnow population i have found […]
After last weeks visit to the lake when i was lucky enough to get one bite in 5 hours, I opted for a change of tactics.Ditching the heavy feeder rod and pellets, I instead used my 6metre margin pole fitted with 14s elastic.I plumbed up at about 5ft and to begin with fed the swim […]
I spent the late afternoon and evening with Phil-K at one of our club waters which is renowned for its large head of tench. Neither of us had fished this venue previously and despite being given a few pointers by friends as to which pegs to fish and tactics to use we both struggled to […]
I spent Friday evening back on the banks of the Irwell, this time equiped with two rods rather than one. Straight lead with a banded 10mm Halibut pellet on each rod. No bites in 4 hours – not even a twitch. Sitting on a river bank with only quiver tips to concentrate on soon results […]
Over the years there have been persistent murmurings that people have been catching Barbel from the Irwell, and it seems to be an accpeted fact that 500 of them were stocked into the river in the early 1990’s. Despite having fished the river on a regular basis over the last few years i have still […]
When someone suggested a family holiday on the Norfolk Broads – i had to pinch myself to check that i wasn’t dreaming. An anglers delight. Oh and when i say family holiday i don’t just mean Lucia, Matt and myself – all my brothers, sisters and their families, together with some of my cousins and […]
A combination of soon to arrive visitors from overseas and a family holiday will mean that I wont get the opportunity to get out fishing for the rest of July. I’m looking forwards to spending some family time – honest! Anyway in light of this time away from my rods i decided to get in […]
Sunday evening saw me on the banks of the River Irwell in Lower Broughton. Not the most scenic of fisheries but the fishing can be terrific when the river conditions are right. In certain swims its sometimes possible to catch a fish every swim through, though this session only saw me catch a fish every […]
As the river was low and slow, Tony and I decided to fish swims higher upstream which had a bit of pace in them, and also a bit more oxygen in the water. Tony who knows the river like the back of his hand predicted that we would catch some nice chub, and he wasnt […]