After telling you all last month at my spectacular non-event at the newly formed ‘Loggies Lake’, I thought I would re-live this weeks adventure. Andrew had cried off due to ‘pressure of work’; he really ought to learn the value of prioritising, but as he says, “All work and no play keep the debt collectors…

Tuesday 10 December 2002 Press Release MINISTER GIVES GO AHEAD TO BRITISH DISABLED ANGLING ASSOCIATION Minister for Sport, Richard Caborn MP has given the green light for the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) to become the organisation that will provide access to angling for nine million disabled people. The Minister has confirmed that all sporting…

River Ribble despite the rain and sometimes coloured water some good fish are being caught sea and brown trout this month is the last for both species the season ends on September 30th Balderston area producing good chub catches, three roach averaging about 12 ounces caught on float fished gentles, is this a sign of…

The Agency’s Regional Fisheries, Ecology & Recreation Advisory Committees (RFERACs) will be discussing the survey results at their meetings this month. Thirty five per cent of anglers who’d fished for coarse fish in 2002 favoured scrapping the close season but 50 per cent wanted it to stay. And there was even more support for keeping…

However, after the incredibly rough conditions from Mask the day before, we felt that we were well equipped to deal with whatever Carra could throw at us. Steven and Paul were both happy for me to take them back to my favoured bay where there generally seem to be olives around and the trout are…

Throughout the summer, when fishing has been particularly tough, most of the fish caught have been feeding predominantly on bloodworm. Over the years I have fished on Chew I have rarely found that the fish have been so preoccupied with this food source. I believed throughout July and August that the predominance of the bloodworm…

But I do have several photo’ albums, and occasionally I glance through them and remember much of my lifetime of angling. Just one picture can bring back so many memories, as the brain’s ability to wander from thought to thought multiplies that one picture into many others. Flashbacks!For example, I found a picture of my…

The table below shows the results of the first week and as you can see it makes for impressive reading: Results for the first week of the season are: Chew 1270 fish 254 rods rod average 5.0 Blagdon 1107 fish 176 rods rod average 6.3 Barrows 147 fish 53 rods rod average 2.8 Litton 146…

It is a time when our own little bit of the world is warming to acceptably tolerable temperatures in which to live; it is a time when colour is coming to the land, and when even the predominant greens of our island are at their brightest and most varied, before the leaves have discoloured with…

I am sure that the Met Office deliberately give us pessimistic forecasts so that we are pleased when it turns out better than their multi-million pound state of the art computers have predicted. My pal Mike Concannon had spent months organising the Eagle Claw Dartmouth Plaice Festival, he was putting on a brave face, telling…