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The vast majority of those fishing (28 out of the 33 boats) headed off to the area between Denny Island and North Shore. All bar three of the limit bags came from that area.Winner – local fishing guide John Horsey, who was actually taking a client of his from Jersey out in the competition, managed…

We started with two or three days of near gale force winds which really stirred up the silt (Chew especially is a shallow lake), and this was followed by several oppressive days – little wind and sweltering conditions, though not genuinely hot. In previous seasons these conditions have presented some of my most memorable fishing….

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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…

These tides and the next set in early January give the main cod shoals their last chance of a big feed before they start to think about making little cod and heading offshore. The tides fall just right this year starting to build in height on Christmas Day, and from the 27th of December right…