Recently I described the start of my amazing South African adventure, offshore from the Cape of Good Hope. Now, refreshed with Cape wines, a glorious meal, and a luxurious overnight stay at the new Court Classique hotel, we headed east across the Southern Cape.
The fact that water temperatures have been high has encouraged weed growth much earlier than is usual. The weed acts as a filter to the sediment in the water, hence helping it to stay clear. The other great aspect of the warm water is that it has encouraged an enormous “bloom” in the daphnia population….
A suspect case of foot and mouth disease has been found near to Chew Valley Lake and thus it cannot open on March 22nd as planned. I guess that we were all expecting this would happen – I really do think that with all the possible bad press that there could be, we should be…
The first session of the week however was still cold, though at least the day was sunny and, with a good imagination, just about spring-like. When I turned up I could see the water level had dropped almost to normal, well the water was at least within the banks of the lake. One of my…
Unfortunately though, long stay fishing means that many anglers miss out on the joys of watching a bite develop on a delicately weighted piece of quill or plastic. Make no mistake though, in the right hands float fishing can be one of the most effective ways of dealing with heavily weeded stillwaters. Like all methods,…
Specie: Pike Weight: 32lb 8oz ‘Arnie’ 32lb 8oz Pike is the lake record at my local fishing venue. Arnie was lured by using herring dead bate. This also is my personal best! This was caught in one of the best EVER eight hour session’s you could imagine. I also landed 14 other pike all between…
If you ever get the chance to examine a gravel pit that has been drained down have a good look at the shape of any features. Unlike the text books, they will not be of even width, length, depth, or even composition. There will be areas which might attract fish more strongly than others. Although…