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I made my way on the long walk round the lake. I was worried that there might be a massive increase of weed but this seemed unfounded as a huge part of the estate lake that had been weedy seemed to have cleared. It was still hot but there was a gentle easterly wind, which…

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And so it was that I had my orders from above to stop telling you all about my latest love or alcohol enhanced evening and try to teach you all how to catch a fish. I could see his point, people don’t really click on to a fishing website to find out if the blonde…

As I write, I’m looking out of my office window down on a perfect looking river Severn that I can’t fish again until June 16th. The powers that be decided to keep with the traditional shut down, despite research that indicated there was no real reason to do so. In my opinion the three-month break…

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.

Apart from being great to watch a float again, this really did get me thinking. Okay, here we were on a heavily stocked fishery where the fish are used to coming up in the water, but already (Mid-March) the fish were quite happy to feed well off bottom. Normally I think of mid-water fishing as…