A few of us spent the morning dragging blanket weed out of one of our local lakes – prior to some further work taking place in a couple of weeks time. By lunchtime, we’d all had enough of the hard graft and decided to spend the last few hours of daylight chasing old essox. Paul […]
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The Quays have been in the press recently as the controlling angling club are giving up their angling rights due to a perceived lack of silver fish in the venue. A very sad state of affairs, with lots of half truths being bandied about by many misinformed quarters.BBC, Sky and Angling Times please do some […]
The missus was instant that she needed a weeks winter sun in Lanzarote as an end to a hellish two year period of commuting to Leeds every day. I was insistent that I wasn’t going to sit by a pool for two weeks and that a bit of fishing kit would be included in our […]
I was recently contacted by a BBC researcher asking if I would do a days filming on the Manchester Ship Canal near the BBCs Media City complex about blogging and angling for BBC Learning.So yesterday morning saw Nick (Angling For Something), Paul (Salford Angler) and myself tackled up and miked up on the turning basin […]
The saga continues……… After so long chasing just one – a couple of hundred turn up in an afternoon! This afternoon – I received a phone call from Ian Hayes of the Environment Agency asking me if I would like to be present at the first stocking of Barbel into the Irwell in over 20 […]
Overnight rain left the Irwell with a good few extra feet on, so all plans for kick sampling went out of the window. This left me with a free day, so a few domestic jobs were completed and then an afternoon on the Rochdale Canal with Paul fishing a spot I’ve had my eye on […]
As the proposed Salford Friendly Anglers match had hit the skids, I had a free day – so took the opportunity to have a few hours on the lower Ribble after roach, dace and chub. I invited along the lads who had been prepared to fish Kingfisher with me – i think they enjoyed the […]
I spent a few hours this morning fishing on the Manchester Ship Canal with Nick and Paul, seeing if we could catch any Pike from near the new Media City complex.We arrived at about 8am so that we could nab a free parking space, and set up opposite Old Trafford football stadium. Nick and Paul […]
Today we held our second kick sampling training day on the Irwell with the Riverfly Partnership. Blessed with some autumnal sunshine 10 new samplers joined the ranks of the Salford Friendly Anglers Monitoring Initiative on the Irwell. We have now covered 13 sites on the Irwell between Rawtenstall and Manchester City Centre, 2 sites on […]
As you all know I am a big supporter of the Angling Trust – my view is that angling needs a unified voice to speak for us in a climate where so many people and groups seem to be bashing angling from all sides. Please take a look at www.anglingtrustnorthwest.netand also http://anglingtrustnorthwest.blogspot.com Lastly please add […]