I had the day free to myself, so after yesterdays deluge i took a trip down to the weir pool on the Mersey to see if there was any chance of casting a line today.On reaching the riverbank i had to do a double take as i have never seen the river so high. The […]
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I didnt even see a salmon today let alone hook one. However there were still a couple of highlights which made my day enjoyable. Despite a chilly start to the morning with the thermometer in the car showing only 4degrees as i was driving up the M6, the sun soon burnt off the early morning […]
Whilst accepting that it may take some time before i catch my first salmon, it might not be this season or the next, i went salmon fishing this afternoon on one the the rivers with the smallest and most fragile salmon runs of any river in the country. Talk about long odds, i went salmon […]
After leaving the city, driving up the M6, then hitting an A road, then a C road, then a single track lane, i have the pleasure of this uplifting view over the Ribble valley, and a wonderfull sense of anticpation as we drive down the farmers lane towards the river. Friday was no exception, as […]
Last year, Lucia and i moved from our apartment to a house with a garden a little further out of the city. Whilst we still live we within the M60 and only 4 miles from the city centre, our garden has been visited by all sorts of wildlife including a deer. We can now enjoy […]
Saturday brought about a trip to fish a beat on the mid – Ribble. It was a trip which had been organised a few weeks beforehand by Phil K and one which i had been eagerly looking forwards to for some time. We had arranged to meet North Country Angler and two other forum members […]
On the way to a meeting in town today, i was walking alongside the Rochdale Canal which runs through the city centre, and saw a British Waterways team attempting to remove debris from around the propeller of a narrow boat. In order to get access to the propellers of the boat they had lowered the […]
Another four hours now makes the running total 10.5 hours without a sniff of a fish. I did however see a couple of fish leap clear of the water two downstream of where i was fishing and more annoyingly one slightly upstream (annoying because it must have swum past me whilst i was trying to […]
After weeks and weeks of terrible weather it was a pleasure to go fishing and sit in the sunshine. Matt was determined to catch his first ever pike today, and we went to fish the moorland reservoir i have been fishing recently. We were accompanied by Phil, Neil and Big Dave and everyone had pike […]
Up at the crack of dawn to get a few hours in before work. I spent another 3 1/2 hours flinging my spinners and flying c around the pool but had no takes or pulls and saw no fish moving. The water levels are slowly dropping now and are now only about 2 feet above […]