Abbay Match Anglers

Most anglers seem to have their favourite swims and the reasons for this are probably as varied as there are swims themselves. There is an uncanny, and almost unnerving connection between good swims and car parks for example, and I may well return to that theme later, depending upon the directions these thought processes take…

During that week there were two heats of the Hardy competition, the Association match for the Major Clubs event and the first of our regional qualifiers for the England teams for next years home internationals. All in all, quite a busy time for the Bristol Water staff. At the start of the week the lake…

There are places, and plenty of them, where you can catch as many carp in an afternoon as people used to catch in a season. These aren’t small fish either – I’ve only today heard of an angler who caught nine 20 pounders in a 24 hour session. Tackle has improved, and so has rig…

DIY rod ring replacement is not the technical matter that starting with a new blank can be. After smoothing the ring feet as shown last week, it is a simple matter of taping one of the ring feet to the blank with some Selotape so that it is in line with the existing rings. Using…

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In the last month I have been out several times with varying degrees of success. My short tench trips are not turning out too well. Three trips so far have produced a big fat zero, despite being in the right swim with the right bait etc. I know this because other guys are fishing the…