I had a couple of nice short sessions on the Rivers Irwell and River Roch at Springwater Park in North Manchester. I started off fishing lures in the shallow fast runs, thinking that the fish might be in the oxygenated water,,, but I was wrong. The trout were lurking in the shady, slow deeper water, […]
Those of you who have been regular long term readers of my blog will know that I just love stumbling across unusual links, information and quirky facts about my favourite River Irwell. Over the years I’ve become quite the art connoisseur – especially when I can link other people art, to the places where I […]
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 […]
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, […]
After a tough day mulling over financial spreadsheets I wanted nothing more than a few hours of peace and quiet on the river after work. A quick trip to the tackle shop turned into a slog through the traffic, and a swift in and out at home turned into a chat with the wife and […]
I’ve been out today on my fishing clubs annual Christmas Pike Social. Always good fun on the Old River Irwell (a still water created by the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal) in Irlam, which has a tremendous head of small to medium size pike max upper doubles. I was a late arrival at 8am […]
Its been a while since I’ve written anything about Barbel Fishing on my local River Irwell. Which is very remiss of me really, as being a local angling club committee member I have been very much involved in recent re-stockings of the river with fish. Here’s two videos of the latest restocking which took place […]
Here are the observations of a North Manchester Angler written in 2009 – it gives a great insight as to the impact Cormorants have made on my local River Irwell. (and I’ve added a few observations of my own to conclude) “I’ve run Wickenhall bottom lake in Newhey for around 8 years now. It […]
