After last weeks visit to the lake when i was lucky enough to get one bite in 5 hours, I opted for a change of tactics.Ditching the heavy feeder rod and pellets, I instead used my 6metre margin pole fitted with 14s elastic.I plumbed up at about 5ft and to begin with fed the swim […]
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I spent the late afternoon and evening with Phil-K at one of our club waters which is renowned for its large head of tench. Neither of us had fished this venue previously and despite being given a few pointers by friends as to which pegs to fish and tactics to use we both struggled to […]
I spent Friday evening back on the banks of the Irwell, this time equiped with two rods rather than one. Straight lead with a banded 10mm Halibut pellet on each rod. No bites in 4 hours – not even a twitch. Sitting on a river bank with only quiver tips to concentrate on soon results […]
Over the years there have been persistent murmurings that people have been catching Barbel from the Irwell, and it seems to be an accpeted fact that 500 of them were stocked into the river in the early 1990’s. Despite having fished the river on a regular basis over the last few years i have still […]
When someone suggested a family holiday on the Norfolk Broads – i had to pinch myself to check that i wasn’t dreaming. An anglers delight. Oh and when i say family holiday i don’t just mean Lucia, Matt and myself – all my brothers, sisters and their families, together with some of my cousins and […]
A combination of soon to arrive visitors from overseas and a family holiday will mean that I wont get the opportunity to get out fishing for the rest of July. I’m looking forwards to spending some family time – honest! Anyway in light of this time away from my rods i decided to get in […]
Sunday evening saw me on the banks of the River Irwell in Lower Broughton. Not the most scenic of fisheries but the fishing can be terrific when the river conditions are right. In certain swims its sometimes possible to catch a fish every swim through, though this session only saw me catch a fish every […]
As the river was low and slow, Tony and I decided to fish swims higher upstream which had a bit of pace in them, and also a bit more oxygen in the water. Tony who knows the river like the back of his hand predicted that we would catch some nice chub, and he wasnt […]
I concentrated my efforts this week on fishing the Irwell, checking out some of last years favourite haunts. I caught the sum total of 1 minnow in evening sessions. Looks to me as though the cormorants have ravaged the river, as so few people fish these stretches it means that the birds have the freedom […]
This post is nothing to do with my student days but an accurate description of last Sunday evenings fishing trip in downtown Salford.I set up my usual trotting gear and waded out underneath a footbridge from which i had seen a shoal of bumper sized roach. Just as i struck into a lb+ fish i […]