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It proved to be a most unusual end to the season, especially for local star Dave Shipman and Bewl’s Ray Burt. The event as usual, was fished over two days. The second was to finish at 5.30pm. 53 of the 54 boats arrived back at the jetty at the correct time. But where was boat…

The first, and most significant change was to move to another area on the Ribble. You may recall I described a swim which I nicknamed the “suicide swim” a couple of months back. This is a place on the river where a big snag, in the shape of an old tree, forms a holding spot…

I went into the same swim and once again went through the process of wading out to the front of the swim and casting around looking for the essential clear areas amongst the weed. This done it was back out with the PVA bags of pellets and crushed boilies. I had run out of Gardner’s…

Garfish [Species Menu] [Garfish articles] Common name: Garfish Latin name: Belone belone Record weight: Garfish are most commonly found close to shore, hence the record weights for boat and shore are very similar. The boat record currently stands at 3lb 9oz 8 drams and the shore record at 3lb 4oz 12 drams. Distribution: A summer…

Despite deserving excellent mild spring conditions, all that I got was a wet afternoon clearing to cold clear skies followed after midnight by yet more rain. It all started well though as when I arrived two of the members were just packing up after a 48 hour session and one of them had caught an…

Right. That’s got that one out of the way then. The year I mean, Okay, and the century too, for those pedants among you. Here we are then, in the year predicted by Arthur C. Clarke to be the age of rebel computers. Of course, I’m talking about 2001 A Space Oddessy – youngsters get…