I bought a new centre pin reel via mail order last week, i couldnt help but laugh when i opened the box to find i had my first piece of fishing “bling”. The reel is supposed to come in a silver/grey colour but i had been sent the special edition gold coloured model instead for […]
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Congratulations Phil-K, the 4.8lb sea-trout above was the highlight of an extemely enjoyable evening on the river. I am still unable to shake off my dose of the yips, as i lost two good fish this evening the first with a hook snap off the second to an 8lb hooklength parting. Whilst i could wallow […]
Having agonised for the last few days over the big trout i lost on the Irwell, i decided to return to the scene of the crime for an evening session with beefed up tackle.The river was 18inches higher than normal after heavy rain earlier in the day. I have previously called the Irwell Manchester storm […]
As i have recently purchased a season ticket for a local club so that i can fish their river beats, i also now have some new still waters to fish. So as i hadnt caught a crucian carp yet this year i asked Tony which of these new waters would be most likely to produce […]
I spent a very enjoyable evening with Phil fishing of the mid-river lengths of our local river, it was especially memorable evening for me as my father who lives only a couple of hundred yards away decided to come and watch us fish for a few hours. It was my dad got me hooked on […]
After having spent a couple of days working from home whilst my house has been invaded by builders, plumber, plasterers and electricians it was a welcome respite on Saturday evening to spend a few hours on the banks of the Ribble with Tony. We were both looking forwards to revisiting the swim in which we […]
I spent my first evening session of the season on one of my favourite lengths of the Irwell. As i knew Big Dave was coming i chose to fish the swim nearest to the car park. This proved to be a mistake as it only produced three minnows in an hours fishing. Tony also came […]
After a few dry weeks the weather returned to normal today with virtually constant heavy rain all day. I had intended to use up some of the maggots left over from Mondays trip to the Ribble this evening, but the local river rises like a flash at the first splashes of rain so fishing was […]
Yesterday was the first day of the official coarse fishing season, when the rivers open up to anglers after a three month break, during which time the fish spawn and recover. After a couple of months fly fishing and coarse fishing on still waters yesterdays trip was a one which i had looked forwards to […]
Matthew and i had a couple of hours up at Pilsworth last night in search of carp, but we couldnt carch any thing other than Bream. Matt hooked into another decent fish, which took him straight across the lake and into the weeds. He is determined to bank a carp so it looks like we […]