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...
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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 #139 – Sherborne Lake – Stuck in the mud…
My last session was a bit of a hard one, so I returned today, slightly more optimistic. However, a few things weren’t on my side. Firstly, time – I only had the morning to...
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...
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 #135 – Ash Ponds
I am very nearly through writing up my Winter fishing season, and a general round up of my fishing exploits since my posts many years ago. It’s interesting how much you learn when you...
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...
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,...
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...
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