a huge mouth slowly consume the bread.It was almost in slow motion. As my heart pounded I stuck and the fish powered off to the other side of the pond. 20 mins later I had landed this 15 pound carp. it was a fight to be remembered!
I had decided before I went to have an all out assault with chopped worm and caster. At the start of the session I fed around a pint of chopped worm and caster into the swim (which was about nine feet deep) thirteen metres out. I then loosefed casters with a catapult to the same…
My plan was to get a couple of days doing the family things and then take a few short fishing trips. On my family holidays I generally get to fish when the weather is not too suitable for much else; fortunately the occasional shower is not too rare in Ireland, hence I get to the…
What sad creature perpetrated that? I thought. And then I realised that I actually knew who was behind it, because I’d met her. That was back in the ’80s, in the USA, in a field near the little town of Higgins, Pennsylvania. She was an Englishwoman named Ingrid Newkirk and she was leading a PETA…
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I had disgraced myself by casting a spoon into the rigging of one of these aquatic spacecraft and Jeff had gotten a little panic stricken as a result. He’d snuck aboard, freed the lure then swiftly bundled me into his truck and shot off home before we were spotted, and he was recognised. Once home,…
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…