8 super chub for Gareth on the Bristol Avon
Now Gareth is a good carp fisher who unlike many likes to fish the river in winter when the carp fishing slows down, and over nighter's are more difficult as you need to set up and pack up during the hours of darkness. He asked me to show him some of the techniques I use to fish for chub on the →
“Boom “barbel 12lbs 10oz
So after a great start to the river season and two 6lb chub plus a 5lb 11oz a week had passed and I was soon heading down to the H.Avon. I deliberately didn't get up at the crack of dawn for this one as I wanted to explore another part of the river and needed the sun up to see →
Sam and Henry and a great day out.
For a birthday present these two chaps were given a days coaching with me. After talking to Sam's mum we decided to start at the very basics and try to get them interested. Well the day was to run something like this. We would fish a small commercial fishery near me to learn how to float fish, play land and unhook →
June 16th and two cracking 6lb chub
It was early in the morning as I drove down the roads to the H.Avon traffic was not particularly busy at 5am, however there are alway some idiots driving in a hurry and over take in dangerous places. The A36 is a single lane road for much of the route to Salisbury and the A338 onward. The best plan is →
Some tough times after the tench.
I was hoping to complete a feature with Gary Newman who writes for the Anglers Mail at Horseshoe lake. We had concocted a plan to show what methods are used on this beautiful water to catch the tench. We agreed to met there on a Monday morning and spend 36hrs on the lake. As with most of this year the weather →
3 guiding sessions and 84 tench to 8lbs 3oz plus carp to 26lbs. Happy days !
Well I've been busy organising and running the Tench Fishers national fish-in at The Carp Societies Horseshoe lake and going on hols to the Fjords. Not only that but have been busy guiding. So that is May gone in a flash and no tench fishing for me! The weather has been seasonally cold with chilly winds blowing for most of the →