Tenching on a cold Horseshoe lake and finish with 2 big carp
Mick my tench fishing mate had a terrible time on Horseshoe last week. Not a bite for 3 days and nights. Him and his mate Lee didn't see a single fish! I know it's been hard. I had planned to fish for two days this week again for the tench. Winter bay was going to be my starting point, however the swim I →
April 19th and a session with David and Jordan (father and son)
David had planned to come to the UK from Boston for a family holiday and had asked me to guide his lad Jordan on catching a few fish. Now as you may know most of the angling in the USA is for large and small mouth bass. So when I asked David if he wanted to fish for coarse fish →
Horseshoe for the 3rd time and a better result.
The car was packed on Sunday morning and a good lunch inside me saw me heading off to fish Horseshoe. The weather forecast was not very good frost on the night followed by a cool northerly wind. Then the wind was turning to the south west on Monday, then heading for rain early Tuesday morning. The forecasters were spot on. I →
10th to 11th April and a load of tench
Having gone 4 days of not so good tench fishing at Horseshoe I decided to try one of my easier waters. Primarily to see how things were because I was taking Tyler fishing the following day. What I didn't want to do was to blank. This is not good for a 10 year old guy. My first day turned out to →
Horseshoe again! But success!
Well here I was one week later on Horseshoe. The temperatures were up and down all week and as I arrived I didn't feel too confident. I fished a good swim where I've caught before. Now as I set up I had a friend Graham call me on the phone from across the lake he was fishing for carp and I →
Perching on a commercial
Andy phoned me to ask if I wanted to fish for perch close to him on a commercial fishery. I'm unsure why they are called commercial, as all fisheries are commercial in that they are run for profit and at a cost. So with a spare Friday we headed off to fish there. There are a couple of key places →