Weight: 23 pounds
Location: Surrey sandpit 23 pounds exactly, my first twenty, and the first twenty to come out of the venue (Surrey sandpit). She took a drifted sprat, got weeded at 50 yards and I needed the assistance of a passing boat to get her out.
So, this week, instead of being stuck under a brolly struggling for bites I’ve put the time to good use by getting my new MAP Matchtek pole ready for action. I’m really pleased with the final production model having worked on the pole for almost a year now. The poles have been in the shops…
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At 2pm I received a phone call – we had to board by 4.30. I hurriedly phoned my friend at work to see if he could leave straight away. It was difficult, but he managed it, and soon we were racing down the M4 hoping there would be no traffic jams. We made the ferry…
Saturday, 16th. Nigel and Jenny are aboard in the midst of a steady blue marlin bite. We have gone 7 for 11 in the previous week, and two of the fish that came off should have been ours too. One disappeared after dragging a Penn 130 around behind a fender in the midst of an…
The telephone shrilled loudly across the darkened room. I struggled to pull myself from the living room chair that had been my bed for the night in the attempt answer it. Another figure lay slumped half on, half off the sofa, male by the look of it. I breathed in stale tobacco ridden air as…
Although I do not believe that we did much harm to the pike, having occasionally caught the same fishes at a later date with the gaff mark healing up, it did occur to me how, as anglers, our general attitude to our quarry has changed. I doubt if there is a single pike angler in…