Archie’s birthday present and a good few pike
Archie had been given a days guiding with me as a birthday present. He had wanted to do some pike fishing. Now his birthday is in December and we had made a few arrangements to fish only for the river conditions to be in flood. Well there is a surprise. Well eventually arranged to meet on Monday just after half term →
Literally so much water has passed under the bridge
Believe it or not I have been fishing however not with any great enthusiasm as the rivers have been high even the K&A canal has been in full flow like a river. I have caught a few perch drop shot fishing but nothing too large. I have now written off the H.Avon for the season. Everytime the Stour drops down along →
A suprise 26lb pike on drop shotting
I’m not saying anything about the rivers nothing seems to change. I do feel really sorry for the guys on the Somerset Levels. I’m not sure what the cause is of the flooding (other than rain)I suspect it is probably several factors of which dredging is one. For sure the one factor that is behind actions that have not been →
Every body is doing it…..Drop shotting
Most anglers will have noticed over the last 18months or so that some huge perch and catches have been made using this method. No only with perch but with pike too. I'm not going to go over the method too closely as there are many experts who are much better explaining this than me. The reason behind this is that I →
Back on the river roach fishing after 5 years and a good roach and Paul gets a big perch too.
It seems to me that every three days we have a low weather front coming from the Atlantic and dumping torrents of rain in south England. Once the river levels start to drop another low arrives to top things up again. This has been going on for about 6 weeks now. The H.Avon and D.Stour have been over their banks several →