Trip #76 – Lands End Specimen
A solid weekend of fishing was going to begin on Lands End Specimen Lake. I was up and out the door very early (I had to take my wife to the train station for...
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Trip #75 – End of Season Thuggery
It was the last day of the river season and I had been getting more and more excited as the week wore on, thinking about where I was going to go and what I...
Trip #74 – A Thorney venue
I’m always weary of venues which advertise stocking levels, as follows “We have Carp up to 25lb’s”. What this generally means is there is 1 token big double in the lake along with a...
Trip #73 – Clear as Mud
As I only had a few hours to spare so today’s trip was going to be a short one. I’d spoken to one of my piker mates who told me the key to catching...
Trip #72 – A Tale of two Halves MKII
As the end of the river season is fast approaching I‘ve aimed my focus on many of the local rivers. To be honest I have a lot to choose from, and being a member...
Trip #71 – A Winter Wobble
The weather recently has been a constant state of freezing and for some reason whenever I’ve had chance to get out on the bank the wind has been howling too! Fishing in the winter...
How to guide – Using the Slider Float
After my recent trip to Shearwater I was contacted to explain how my set up. To be honest this was the first time I had fished the slider in a few years, so I...
Trip #70 – Shearwater Lake
I really need to practice other styles of fishing other than pole fishing. It’s my first port of call whenever I go to most venues. I find it allows for greater presentation, a concentrated...
How to attach elastic to an elastic connector.
It’s been a while since I’ve looked at my match top 3, and recently after switching all my heavy elastics to Dacron connectors I have unfortunately neglected my number 6 elastic, which has well...
Trip #69 – Tough times at Somerset’s finest.
This was going to be my first coarse fishing outing of 2015. To be honest it was a tossup between going Pike fishing on one of the local(ish) drains or going for a bit...
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