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Back On The Brook

Due to upheavals on the work front I’ve been unable to spend time updating my blog. Time on the bank has been restricted to only one Sunday afternoon out fishing the www.maggotdrowning.com annual Christmas Fur & Feather match at Pool Bridge Farm near York. As I only ever fish this one match per year, its […]

2lb Roach

I had wanted to go fishing with my Dad ever since I was old enough to realise he was out doing something enjoyable and that I was going to be left stuck at home with my mum. Memories of my father going out every evening to catch trout from hill lochs in Donegal during family […]

Balls

My fishing time has been severely restricted these last few weeks, due to work, bad weather and making arrangements for my rapidly approaching wedding. Most of this weekend was again up with domestic duties but I did manage to sneak down to the river for the last two hours of daylight – when I took […]

Famine Then Feast

After suffering so many blanks over the last month or two I’d really been looking forwards to Big Daves annual trip to his mates farm pond. Tucked deep away in rural Shropshire its a hell of a venue. A lovely setting, good company and a lake stuffed with big, hard fighting Rainbow Trout. After an […]