Trip #108 – Mallard Merriment
I had recently been given the rarest of opportunities – the fabled “weekend without a child”, courtesy of grandparents. So I quickly decided that I was going to head out to a nearby fishery,...
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Trip #107 – Oathill Revisited
Only a short one, but that doesn’t mean to say unproductive. I had an hour to catch as many fish as I could. So off I went with my bag of krill flavoured “big...
Trip #106 – Outstanding Oathill
It’s been a long time since I’ve been fishing. One measured in months, maybe even years. The last fish I caught were 9lb and 6lb Bass during a storm on a Bench in South...
Trip #104 – Cogden Calamity
Friday night I was quite excited to be heading out, I’d made a load of new rigs, had a pretty good selection of bait and aimed to fish another new venue. This time it...
Trip #102 – A Hive of Activity…
Friday night, conditions could not have been more perfect. The weather had been warm, the tide was rising (High tide was at 23:54), and the wind was low and settled. I’d done a lot...
Trip #101 – Chesil Cove
I had been reading all week that Rays and Hounds were about and popping up all along Chesil, so knowing that I was going to hit the beach for a few hours on Friday...
Trip #96 – Easter Annualisation
In a working world of “week on week”, “year and year” and various other almost meaningless annualisation terminology I thought I would make my own annual observations. I had a few hours spare in...
Trip #95 – Last Day Dalliance
The day is fast approaching… The 15th of March, and being a borderline workaholic I wasn’t going to be able to get a week day off to get out and give the river a...
Trip #94 – Go Small or Go Home
Contrary to the popular saying “Go big or Go home”, after some trial and error on one my most recent trips (before the blustery onset of winter) size definitely does matter. The tides were...
Trip #92 – Wetter than an Otter’s Pocket
Just a short one this time. Following my last trip to Lyme Regis, I dug my waders out of retirement and was keen to get back out there in search of elusive bass. I...
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