After spending the weekend gardening I was itching for some sort of fishing related activity this morning so after going through my Monday morning emails, the weekends post etc I made a coffee, sat back from my desk and called Phil and Tony to see how they had got on over the weekend. If i […]
Author Archives: Mike Duddy
I wonder how many years it will take for the River Irk to recover from this!! The source of the pollution leak has been traced back to the retaining bankside wall of a detergent factory in Middleton. The EA are unable to ascertain if its detergent or bleach which has entered the water course until […]
I spent the best part of the day at Clevely Bridge Fishery near Lancaster. It holds a good head of small carp, so I arrived with a bag of Betaine Green groundbait, sweetcorn and some soft hooker pellets in the hope of a nice net of fish I fed two swims (10 and 2 O’clock) […]
Tony and I fished Square Lodge in Hindley this afternoon, and caught some lovely fish. I fished two lines, a pinkie line and a pellet line. I fed the pellet line first, and left it to develop whilst i bashed bits on the pinkie line. I had 10 fish on the pinkie line (at 5 […]
The sun was shining and I’d arranged a few hours on the river with Phil & Tony. With a spring in my step i was really looking forwards to an afternoons fishing. Rather than fishing the usual pools and runs I decided to have a change and took advantage of the low water conditions by […]
As its still early in the season and the trees are still bare, I took the opportunity to go trout fishing on a river that gets so overgrown in summer that fly fishing is virtually impossible. My previous visits to this length of water have always been productive, and despite its diminutive size, I’ve always […]
Just like everyone else, there are events which we look forward to, plan for, and as a result build a mental picture of the outcome. Today was the opening day of the trout season on the river, something I’ve been looking forwards to all winter. When you look forwards to something for a long time, […]
After spending a large part of last season chasing trout on my local streams and rivers, it has become more than obvious that shop bought flies are not as effective as those tied by my friends. Rather than constantly badgering them for “samples” i decided that during the winter months i would learn to tie […]
I have spent my last three outings on the lower Irwell close to the city centre and blanked on each occasion. My intention has been to have a crack at some of the roach which shoal up in the city centre during the winter months. Bags of 60lbs of roach have been common during the […]
After spending a tough day on the Irwell I was in the mind to put a bend in my rod this afternoon. After umming and aarring about which commercial venue to fish i finally decided to visit Tonys little stream. The water was low and clear and walking along the footpath i could see trout […]