There always a wag insn’t there – but this one did provoke a wry smile manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout
Author Archives: Mike Duddy
Its difficult to keep up with everyones blogs – these days everyones seems to be at it. Naturally theres the good, bad and indifferent. I like to think that the blogs I follow represent a good cross section of the better fly / match / specimen / pleasure anglers in the Northwest. A coarse/pleasure blog […]
In pursuit of the 2lber, I met up with Phil K for a day on some old gravel pits we know half way up the M6 towards Lancaster.Though the temperature was warmish (12 degrees) the wind chill saw us shivering by lunchtime so we called it a day quite early on.I had an 8 ouncer […]
I cleaned out one of my three fishing boxes this evening – note to self – stop buying hooks everytime I visit the tackle shop. manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout
As I’ve been suffering recently with a bad chest – I didnt really fancy todays planned fishing trip with the lads on the River, so managed to persuade them that the trout would be obliging at Pendle View Fishery.I’ve fished this water on and off for a number of years – its probably the easiest […]
A very cold front! A new venue – which is local to me and reputed to hold BIG roach. I’ve been meaning to get up there for a few weeks now to have a reccie but havent been able to find the time. So I had a few hours free this afternoon so Paul and […]
Pierre Adolphe Valette was a French impressionist artist who came to live in Manchester in 1905. Finding our murky grey landscape to his liking – he stayed in the North West until 1928 painting many Manchester landscapes in the Impressionist style. He became a tutor at the Manchester Municipal School of Art and was mentor […]
Not my research – but the recently completed study by the fantastic people at http://www.substance.coop/ in Manchester. Well done Drs Adam, Paul and Natalie Here it is:http://www.resources.anglingresearch.org.uk/sites/resources.anglingresearch.org.uk/files/Final%20report.pdf manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout
I had a few hours free this afternoon, so I defrosted a few dead baits and headed off towards the Irwell at Agecroft. The river was still running high and fast so I decided to have a few casts on “The Pit”. “The Pit” is one of Greater Manchesters few gravel pits, dug in the […]
I spent a very windy afternoon at Church Gardens in Bolton fishing hemp and caster for the lovely roach which are present in large numbers. The wind was so strong that i couldnt hold anything more than 7m of pole and even at that length I found it difficult to hold the bait still.Nothing for […]