Picking up from my last piece, after my first day of fishing in Egypt, the next few days was followed by a pattern of being awake before sunrise, an early cuppa then out on the lake trolling for a couple of hours before breakfast. After breakfast
Firstly, I hope everyone is managing to stay safe and family and friends are surviving lockdown and finding new ways to keep occupied in these difficult times. With some form of lockdown looking like it might continue for the foreseeable future and
I began the month with a visit to Homeclose Fishery in Rutland. I wanted to return to this off-the-beaten-track place before the weather warmed up, after enjoying great sport there last summer on the main lake, called Hornbeam. The only
When spending another lovely morning in the French Ardennes, it takes a few minutes to let it all sink in. The weather most spring mornings are lovely, with the birds singing and the trees in blossom, but we still face another day of lockdown.
Back in 2012 I was a very lucky angler, catching my biggest ever carp while targeting tench. Seeing as we’re all now stuck inside, I thought it would a good time to share my throwback story with you.
I have always had a fondness towards the
Since the new year, the weather has been very wet, leading many rivers to flood and now we have to put the rods away entirely to keep the public safe. Nonetheless, a benefit I found last season of having the rivers full of water from relatively mild
For this latest episode we’re on the saltwater theme, but doing something a little different, as we head to into Suffolk and to Southwold, to fish the River Blyth!
Having spent a fair bit of time in Southwold we were always curious of the river
With the river season now closed and spring just around the corner, my pike rods were put away in January and the chub fishing rigs and gear were dusted down for a few end of season chub fishing trips when it was a safer climate to do so.
For part of February, I had to go to France for a few days on business and just avoided getting held up by yet another storm. Returning back to the UK for the next big blow and near arctic conditions, the rivers were back in the fields again and I
My first outing of the month was to the Upper River Witham, on a day when water levels had returned to something like normal, a rare occurrence after all the heavy rain this winter. The current was still quite pacey, but I could just about control a