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 #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 #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...
Trip #89 – Higher Farm – Higher Lakes – Lake 2
After my last trip to the Long Load Canal and my trip back to Wales I decided my next trip was going to be another new venue. The tides were not working in my...
Trip #87 – Long Load Drain
Fish don’t catch themselves! Although in some commercial fisheries you could argue that they might… With that contentious issue in mind I decided to steer clear of catch proven and conventional lakes I would...
Trip #86 – Mangerton Misfire
This weekend my Dad was visiting and I was a little concerned as at the venue (and time of year in general) it had reported that the Carp had been breeding in earnest. Which...
Trip #83 – Mangerton Take 2 – The Proof is in the Paste
I was very keen today to get out and try some of the Skretting Pellet Paste I had made the previous evening. I was under no illusion that today was going to be aimed...
Trip #82 – Higher Kingcombe Floaters
Just a snippet of a post from me this week, as there was extraordinary amounts of cleaning and shopping to be done. Also, by the time I had worked out I had time to...
Trip #77 – Revels – Canal Lake
Today was part 2 of my fishing weekender, and to be honest I got off to a bit or a foggy start. Catching up with the rugby the previous evening while celebrating a glorious...
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...
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