28th January Perching and a good result!
A girl I know said the last time she had sex, it was like the men's Olympic 100 meter final. I laughed, "Over in 9.5 seconds?" "No," she said, "Eight black men and a gun." Not PC I know! The month is not just passing by but has practically gone and the fishing has been disappointing. Rain, snow then more rain has →
23rd and 24th January and a good few chub and bone fish.
I had decided (the wife really )decorating would be on the agenda for the last 10 days or so. Looking at the weather it wasn't such a bad idea as the fishing would have been poor. At times I felt like a decorating slave! Decorating and cleaning cars are a couple of jobs that never motivates me. Never mind I notched up →
Hard going on the 7th and 11th Jan
Martin had been wanting to go fishing for pike ASAP. The rivers though had other thoughts. Band upon band of rain came west and unloaded it's moisture over the west country. I have seldom been so frustrated at watching the levels going up and down. January the 7th provided a short spell of the river clearing in colour. The flow was →
4th January 2013 and perch fishing.
Well what happened there then! Christmas just flew by and the next thing it's the new year. I had planned to fish the river today but a call from Andy and Mike saying they were going to fish for perch had me changing my plans the night before. The river condition was betwixt chub and barbel and perching sounded good to →
Sunday 23rd December
A great friend Steve Spiller, or now ex friend took me to fish a very secret lake that holds some huge pike. The lake is so small it's ridiculous but it has plenty of food fish in there. The bailiff showed me a couple of photo's of a 32lb and 27lb pike caught the previous week. I thought here we →