Christmas Day 2 for Shaun.
Dawn knows how to give Shaun a great time.......steady!!!!! I'm talking here about getting him a days guiding as a Christmas present. This is the second year she has bought him a voucher. Last year if I remember he caught a 8lbs 15oz barbel and a 5lbs 4oz chub on his guiding day. So Dawn phoned me again in December asking →
Well another day on the river Wye for Jake and Tim
This is the 4th time I've guided Tim and Jake and the second time on the river Wye. The river had dropped by another 8" since I had fished on Sunday. The colour had gone too. I'm not too worried about that. The temperatures though had dropped to 14c during the day and 6c at night so the temperature of the →
Big barbel on the Wye for big brother Alan and great Nephew Charlie
Well for some time now I had promised Charlie and Alan a day on the Wye fishing for barbel. Well not to let them down we decided to fish a great beat. I won't go on about how it fished other to say they both had never caught a barbel before. Charlie was the first to catch after 10 minutes he had →
A short session on the H.Avon and a good chub and heart ache.
I had been wanting to visit the H.Avon again however finding a window of opportunity was difficult. However today I had some financial business to deal with in the morning so it was possible that I could be fishing by 3pm. The drive down is always a pleasure at this time of year. I arrived to find the river lower than before →
Geoff and Matt go barbel fishing on the Wye
Matt had wanted to give his Dad a birthday present. A day barbel fishing on the river Wye. Both of the guy’s are very good match anglers however the agricultural nature of fishing the wild river Wye was something else to them. 36hrs previous there had been some much welcomed rain. This was pushing the river up only by a couple of →
Dog difficult day on the H.Avon but success on the Bristol Avon
Since the last guiding session with Mark having that fantastic catch I’ve been busy doing plenty of fishing and guiding. First I travelled to the H.Avon in search of some large chub. Again I walked and walked the fishery looking for large chub. I wasn’t on the fishery early as I had a few jobs to complete at home first. As →
Great session for 17 tench and 6 carp for Mark
Mark has just returned to tench fishing and wanted to spend some time understanding rigs and feature finding. He is already an experienced big fish man having some huge barbel to his credit. So no pressure on me then! We agreed to meet at a lake which I had fished just weeks before. It’s about 20 acres in size with a →