The blogs been quiet recently – to be honest I’ve been run off my feet with work – aiming to get a couple of things finished by early July – only to fall of my bike and injure my back the day after I’d cleared the decks. As a result, theres not been that much […]
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What on earth is this? It looks like something from Alien vs Predator – the answer is somewhere below. Back to the 16th June 2011 48 hours after the event, I’ve still got a warm glow coursing through my veins and a broad grin across my face. Nothing to do with the plate of Gorgonzola […]
Nick Carter, Tom Donnai, Matt Eastham. Back in 2007 I started reading the blogs of Nick Carter, Tony Peet and Matt Eastham Angling For Something Time By The River and North Country Angler These guys writings were revelations to me at the time, my kind of angler, fishing waters I knew and they inspired me […]
Hi everyone.The Salford Friendly Anglers Society is a pain in the …. to update. So until Salford Univeristy come up with our new website – I’m going to blog them. www.salfordfriendlyanglers.blogspot.com (I spoke to the EA yesterday about the Irk, and surprisingly no one seemed to know anything about the latest Irk pollution incident – […]
http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/8/news/54605/river-irksome Very sad to see that its happening again, and again, and again.I had a look at the Irk yesterday afternoon, and the stench of sewage was terrible. manchester fishing Irwell Ribble Trout
As this years ridiculous chase for species of fish continues (this is the last time I’m going to do this challenge (Promise)), I decided to take a trip up to Borwick in Lancashire to try to catch my first ever grass carp and catfish.On Friday, my main line of attack was ground bait method feeder […]
I tried not to book in any work this week, but one appointment slipped the net. So this morning I was up at the crack of dawn to make a 9am meeting in Northampton which was only scheduled to last for 45 mins to an hour. Now Northampton is a long way to travel for […]
This morning saw Paul and I having a bash on yet another local farm lake. A good net of roach and rudd to 8oz, a host of gudgeon and the best fish of the day a 2lb+ perch falling to Pauls well presented single red maggot. A lovely day, enhanced by the visit of a […]
I’ve been getting in more than my fair share of fishing these last two weeks and have been sadly neglecting the blog. A trip out to Beacon View saw me getting a few carp on pellet waggler and a trip on the Irwell resulted in only a couple of micro brownies. The river was on […]
Sketched by L.S.Lowry in 1948, fished by Mike Duddy 2011. When I was a little kid, my dad used to make us hold our breath as we crossed over Agecroft Bridge in the car. The river was still grossly polluted in the early 1970s and gasses and odours often hung like a shroud at the […]