SATURDAY21st October 2000

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I am off to fish in the Hardy competition at Bewl this weekend and my advance information is that the water is so warm that the fish are off the feed “big time”! In the final eliminator for the National at Bewl last week, the hopeful competitors caught only eight fish. I thought that Chew…

FISHING.CO.UK is now running on a new server, so that should speed things up a bit. Let me know if you are experiencing any problems and we’ll see if we can sort things out. It’s nice to get stuff like that sorted out early on in the year, it interferes with too much fishing time…

August 9th saw me back at the Island lake for my usual dawn to dusk session. I set up in the south west corner, as a north easterly wind had been forecast. I was now fishing the particle on both rods, though I was still keeping up the baiting with the HNV, putting some in…

Specie: Carp Weight: 15lb 8ozs Location: lodge lake – Milton Keynes This is my personal best caught on my local lake (lodge lake). It`s a mirror carp at 15lb 8oz caught in the evening of 14/7/00 using birdfood boiles and it took me a half hour to land. What a fight! But it was well…

All sorts of crossroads were meeting, avenues opening up, doors closing and other well-documented clichés. I had just turned thirty and in retrospect, had wasted most of my life on alcohol, women and fishing. I needed fresh challenges and a new direction. After much soul searching and a brutally honest self-assessment I set three new…