Dan and Dad Bill first barbel
Dan had been in touch in the winter asking me to guide him and his Dad Bill on the river Wye for barbel. Could I provide a birthday voucher for Bill to spend on this day out. He also wanted to buy Bill a new barbel rod and could I recommend one. I had no doubt the Fox range of barbel →
Tench feature in the Anglers Mail with Gary Newman as the camera man and reporter.
It's funny how long ago it seems now Gary had asked me to help him to do a feature for the Anglers Mail on the Carp Societies Horseshoe lake. A few phone calls later saw us arranging a date in early June to fish the lake. I turned up early the previous day and set up where I thought the tench →
Luke’s first ever barbel session, 24 for the day, “Happy Days”
Now I guided Luke before a couple of times chub fishing in the winter and tench fishing in early spring. It's great because once he see's what I'm doing and from what he has learnt he returns and replicates the methods and catches fish. He was telling me he has now had tench to over 6lbs using the methods and →
Chris and James fishing the river Wye and the first guided double of the season.
James had wanted to fish the river Wye for barbel and asked if his friend Chris could come along. There is never a problem with this as it normally leads to fair bit of banter between the 3 of us. James had just returned to angling after a break and wanted to see what was needed tackle wise and also learn →
Barbel fishing on the Wye with Lloyd
I had first met Lloyd over the winter. He asked me to guide him with pike fish, however I found it difficult to find sufficient time with one thing or another. However I did spend a few hours just helping him out with a few tips. These few tips resulted in him landing some good pike from the Bristol Avon →
Carl and his Wye barbel adventure
Carl is in the Tench Fishers and asked me sometime ago whether I could take him fishing on the Wye fishing for barbel. Now Carl won't mind me saying here that he has been going through a tough time of it of late and he needed some distraction to take things off his mind. We agreed to fish a short session →
Short session on the Hampshire Avon
I was thinking of walking the stretch where I fish on the H.Avon as some things had changed on the fishery and I wanted to walk and take a look at the swims and see where the chub were hiding. I walked the stretch for 6hrs taking note of where the large chub were and also feeding them. It was after →
Plenty of guiding and Jeff’s 3lb 2oz perch
Well since the river season began it's been very very busy with me catching some great chub and barbel. The guiding has really taken off with lots of people wanting to get in on the act too. However the first session was back on the lakes for Jeff. Now Jeff has just returned to fishing after an absence of a good →