Now that we are enjoying nice long evenings I made the most of it and visited Pollys Flash (aka Kingsdown Flash) in Abram, Lancashire in search of a Bitterling to add to my species tally for the year. I set up nearest to the car park (lazyness) but then the wind was right in my […]
Out on the ocean wave — SIB Fishing — well not really, being a bit on the cautious side of things I waited for a nice calm day and there was hardly a wave worth talking about. There was however plenty of fishing and other goings on that are worth talking about. I’ve taken a […]
Ha Ha – silly me – Did I really go to bed last night thinking that I was going to have a great opening day but as so often happens pre fishing trip excitement often turns into post trip disappointment. Whilst I was asleep – the heavens opened and local rivers were unfishable by the […]
Blank sessions, missed fish, bloody mindedness, bad weather and bad luck. A bad February rolls on into a poor start to the month of March. The weather cleared for a day so I managed a session fishing the Mersey Estuary in Liverpool. Low tide in the morning saw me fishing the low water mark at […]
I recently read the great John Wilson autobiography “60 Years A Fisherman” – and at the end of his colourful lifes tale he concludes the book with two last pages consisting of a list of fish that he had caught – both fresh and saltwater. John had managed to catch 217 species of fish from 22 […]
Arrgghh – what a month 🙁 I can’t remember a month like it – rivers high, winds strong, tides all wrong, fish hooked and lost – just piss off February 2020 I hope I never experience another month like it. It all started to go wrong at the start of the month when I managed […]
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 […]
I caught some lovely small roach from a local canal recently as I’d promised to “bang out” half a dozen live baits for a pike session later that afternoon with a mate. There hadn’t been a hard frost the night before, but the weather was typical winter Manchester, cold hard and grey. Conditions that a […]
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 […]
