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 #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 #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...
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 #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 #91 – Higher Farm – Lower Lake
Today’s session was going to be a wet one. The weather forecast was set between light – heavy rain all day. Still a day on the bank is better than a day in the...
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