Yesterday was the first day of the official coarse fishing season, when the rivers open up to anglers after a three month break, during which time the fish spawn and recover. After a couple of months fly fishing and coarse fishing on still waters yesterdays trip was a one which i had looked forwards to […]
Author Archives: Mike Duddy
Matthew and i had a couple of hours up at Pilsworth last night in search of carp, but we couldnt carch any thing other than Bream. Matt hooked into another decent fish, which took him straight across the lake and into the weeds. He is determined to bank a carp so it looks like we […]
This weekend i was lucky enough to be able to fit three fishing trips in. My first venture was a return to the swim on the Manchester Ship Canal where i had bagged up on roach last week. This week however i turned up but the roach didnt. I struggled to get bites but stuck […]
I spent a very enjoyable evening in the company of Nick, author of Angling For Something. We had arranged to have a plugging / spinning session after work for the large trout that allegedly inhabit the Ship Canal. I originally planned to take a second rod which i would use to suspend a team of […]
Had an afternoon/evening session on the Ribble with Tony and Phil, i was looking forwards to trying some more upstream nyphing. Despite the rain that was falling, the river levels were low, a good two or three feet lower than on our last visit. Tony and i started fishing the shallow pools below the bridge […]
I had arranged to meet Miggy at 6am at Dock 9 Salford Quays, so despite all my best intentions i didnt get to bed until midnight the night before. Imagine how i felt to get a text message at 3am to inform me that he couldnt sleep and was going to set off at 4am!. […]
As i had an hour or so free after work this evening so went for a quick fix of my new drug upstream nymphing. After having a couple of practise casts in the swim i fished with Phil and Tony yesterday evening i moved a couple of hundred yards downstream and fished the gentle weir […]
I spent Monday afternoon with Phil having a wade and fish down a new section of one our local small rivers. Our tactics were not very succesfull as after completely fishing through the chosen length of stream, our only fish was a small Chub which Phil caught. I didnt even get a bite. Later in […]
Having promised Lucia a day out together without me spending some part of the day fishing, i couldnt believe it when she told me the she wanted to visit the waterfalls of High Force and Cauldren Snout. Both of these falls are located on the River Tees in North Yorkshire and are located in prime […]
After our last trip the Ship Canal, i couldnt resist another attempt at unlocking this venues secrets. I thought i had a method that was going to be really effective but a howling gale meant that delicate presentation of bait under a 15ft trotting rod was impossible. Both Phil and I decided to sit it […]