Trip #143 – New Venue Day – River Yeo, Ilchester
Today I would be fishing a new stretch of river, a stretch I’d only see in some online videos, but this time it was finally mine to explore. My new season ticket promised a...
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Trip #142 – Early Morning Power Hour
There are two things you should know about my ‘early morning power hour’ on the river: This particular early morning adventure, a quick burst of angling before the shops opened, was meant to be...
Trip #141 – Sherborne Lake – Tinca Time
I had a good feeling about today, today was going to be the day that I was going to break my duck and catch that elusive big bream. As usual my alarm was set...
Trip #140 – Sherborne Lake – Double Header
I’m yet to catch a big bream in Sherborne Lake, but this was the weekend I was confident of doing it. I’d called into Otter angling in Exeter to grab my maggots and groundbait...
Trip #137 – Thorney Lakes – Re-review
Thorney Lakes – Re-review So after my recent trip to Ash Ponds with my eldest son, my youngest son got incredibly jealous and wanted to go fishing. For some reason there is a minimum...
Trip #134 – Revels – Canal Lake
When opportunities present themselves. Sometimes you just have to take them. Today was not an exception to that rule. I’d spent most of the morning faffing around, collecting shopping, tidying, boring weekend jobs, when...
Trip #131 – Revels Fishery – Main Lake
After the success of our recent fishing trip with me and my eldest, now my younger son wanted to join us. This was going to be tough, but never say that I am not...
Trip #136 – Ash Ponds – Second Lake
Ok, so my recent visit, (and frankly bragging session) did not go unnoticed by my eldest son who insisted that we “go back to catch big ones”. So that was the plan. In fact...
Navigation Pond – Pre and Post Lockdown (3 Trips)
This was a lockdown-post lockdown lake within a short distance of my home. I found it through Google maps. Honestly it’s quite a pleasant lake. Not heavily stocked, but it has a small head...
Trip #109 – Lockdown Leviathan
Highfields Dairy Farm Not exactly the first post of 2021 that I expected to write. National “Lockdown“ is currently in full swing. There is an easily transmittable global pandemic, the likes of which has...
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