We respect one another’s space and need for thinking time
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Some people in the Walton PAC region may remember a small (but perfectly formed) friend that used to attend meetings and functions with Brian and I some ten or so years back. His name was Tony ‘Stumpy’ Smith and he was a major part of ‘Fishing with the Family’, as we call our piking adventures…
Fact is they’re missing out on a species that is just peaking in both numbers and size during that period. The ever obliging dab keeps you out and about enjoying yourself and eases that “wishing I was fishing” feeling that grips us during the darkest time of year.Providing you’re casting on to sand, it doesn’t…
The blue-green algae now had a firm grip on the water, and had reduced visibility from around ten feet, to just two or three inches. It looked as if someone had tipped hundreds of gallons of turquoise paint into the water, and with no signs of fish anywhere, I began to think it a waste…
Rutland Water finished the season on a high with catch returns for the period 15 to 22 December showing that 222 anglers took advantage of the mild conditions and caught 682 fish. Giving an excellent rod average of over three. Fish had been seen moving in the surface all around the lake, close in, taking…
My airbed has deflated in the night and I feel the hardness of the ground in the numbness of my muscles and it is cold, damp and not pleasant. My tent zip is opened a few inches and I then find a hot cup of tea thrust into my hands as the call comes again…
