October 31st Preparation
After a few phone calls during the week I secured a ticket for both Dan and myself to fish the Willow lake on the Linch Hill complex. So the ticket starts on the 1st of November and not wanting to waste anytime Dan and I agreed to meet on Monday the 1st November and start our roach campaign. We are unsure about →
October 27th excited at Linch Hill
Well the last time I ventured out was at the beginning of the week, but it's not all about fishing. Wednesday I met with Dan Williams a young man I fished with a couple of years ago for tench, to look over the Linch Hill Willow lake. Inspried by reports of roach to almost 4lbs albeit 10 years ago or →
October 25th Great Somerford
Well that was the worst frost of the year so far! The grass was still white on the lawn in the shade of the house as I set off at noon. the objective of the day was to fish for pike on some of the trout beats. I was using some sprats as wobbled baits. The river here is very →
October 22nd Lacock
I only had a couple of hour's again to wet a line and I wanted to go and look at the area around Lacock. There are some good chub and roach that frequent a few swims. It was these that I wanted to just have a look and see what the swims looked like. My tactics/approach was to be banded →
October 21st
Was invited along to the Oxfordshire & North Wilts PAC meeting by Vince Williams. Well just had a great evening listening to Julian Chidgey on his epic pike sessions as a youngster and then as he grew older stretching himself to include new waters as far away as Scotland and Germany in the Baltic sea. It's good to see that his humble →
October 17th Dorset Stour Throop
First I need to share a joke from the late Tommy Cooper. “I was in bed with my new girlfriend last night, and she said I‘d got the biggest willy she’d ever laid her hands on” I said “You’re pulling my leg.” Well the alarm went off at 6.30am and from a cosy warm sleeping bag I found the cold stark air of →
October 16th Dorset Stour Throop
Well after last Thursday efforts on the Bristol Avon and catching a few chub on the banded pellet it was good to be heading south. I was due to be guiding on the Sunday with two Andy's from London way. So I hadn't seen the Stour for 3 weeks so I thought it best to go down the day before to →
Great Somerford Bristol Avon
Well I've just had two weeks break one was on holiday in Dubai and the other was for a cold that I contracted whilst there. That will teach me for having such a good time. I was desperate to get out and wet a line again after what seemed like an eternity. I had missed the rain we had a couple →