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 […]
FC Utd And The Fenix Part 2 (the latest bit) FC Utd And The Fenix Part 1 (the first bit) After the excitement of the away to trip to Poland, the clubs league form took a turn for the better, with FC only losing 4 games in the following 4 months… and as the club moved […]
A long overdue two week break saw us loading up the car and heading off down the M6 and M5 to Cornwall for a fortnights family holiday in Cornwall. I of course loaded up the car with fishing tackle, inflatable boat and outboard engine before my wife got a chance to fill up boot space […]
After lock down I finally got out with a rod in hand last week – Back In The Saddle so to speak. With kids in tow (I’m furloughed whilst my wife if doing double shifts for the NHS) I took the opportunity to kill two birds with one stone – a long scooter ride along […]
As the coarse fishing season on my local rivers finishes and one chapter closes another trout season opens and a new chapter begins. Fishing Fiend Junior V3 has been showing lots of interest in accompanying Daddy on the river bank this spring. Not that I’ve been encouraging her interest (pink rod, pink reel, pink line, […]
In past years I’ve had a lot of fun trying to catch as many freshwater species as I can in a calendar year. I have a list of 46 freshwater species and I think 2014 was my best year when I knocked 33 of them off the list. As much of my fishing this year […]
Over the years I’ve had many happy holidays on the Spanish Island of Feurteventura, but have done very little fishing whilst there. The harbours are full of mullet which grow to huge proportions fed on the bread and pellets thrown to them by tourists, and the harbour walls home to a huge variety of brightly […]
Life sometimes takes over, and I don’t have as much time or inclination to write about my fishing trips as much I used to… that doesn’t mean to say I’m not going fishing anymore… I most certainly am … just in a slightly different manner than I used to before. Most of my fishing over […]
I’ve just put a bit of new kit together for my daughter who turns 4 years old next month…. she’s as keen as mustard. Pink 6ft 2 weight, matching pink line and reel….. so now I need some flies to match We’re lucky to have lots of small streams that are stacked with trout in […]
You might think that I’ve been out sea fishing going by the title of this post – but Monton Lighthouse is 30 miles from the sea – located on the banks of the Bridgewater Canal in deepest darkest Salford. I’ve been interested in fishing this bit of the cut for a number of years now […]
