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Pitsford Pike!
Pitsford Pike!

Pitsford Pike!

Yours truly  having built up a day’s flexi and Stu hankering to wiggle his foot long rubber sex toys in front of some Anglian Water pike combined to form a Monday mission down to Pitsford. You may have seen the…

BobOctober 21, 2014October 1, 2017 Midlands, Pike Fishing 1 Comment
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Reservoir pike fly fishing next week!

Next week I’m hopefully off to Pitsford reservoir in Northamptonshire to do a spot of pike fishing. I’ll be taking a spinning rod and some 19cm Savage Gear crankbaits but also, I shall be deploying my lovely Guideline LPX 9ft…

BobOctober 18, 2014October 1, 2017 Pike Fishing, Uncategorized No Comments
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More pike action!
More pike action!

More pike action!

I’m struggling to catch up here – bearing in mind Assynt was end of June and I only finished the blog post on that last night! This is just a quickie. Hot on the heels of our earlier predator/coarse fishing…

BobOctober 9, 2014October 1, 2017 Pike Fishing, Uncategorized, Yorkshire Stillwaters 1 Comment
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Assynt Blog 2014
Assynt Blog 2014

Assynt Blog 2014

  Ah, lunch-break is it? Nice one, forget reading the Metro. Get out your sarnies and put your feet up ‘cos it’s time for another Assynt blog! This year’s Assynt Blog has not come easy. In a sense, that is…

BobOctober 8, 2014October 1, 2017 Assynt, Scotland, Uncategorized, Wild Brown Trout, Wild Fishing in Scotland 26 Comments
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Stu and Bob, putting the coarse back into coarse fishing…

  This year I’ve had a resurgence in my interest in fishing and it’s not just fly fishing. Recently, I’ve been having impure thoughts involving predators, three-pointed hooks, slimy unhooking mats and foot-long forceps. But it’s worse than that, I even…

BobAugust 10, 2014October 1, 2017 Uncategorized No Comments
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Assynt blog 2014….coming soonish!

In the meantime, here’s a nice picture of a loch in Assynt!    

BobJuly 29, 2014October 1, 2017 Assynt, Wild Brown Trout 11 Comments
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Assynt here we come..again!

Not long to go until the start of another Assynt fishing trip! I’ve been very reserved with my pre-holiday purchases, but look at that selection of flies below – money well spent I say. We got some good ‘big loch’…

BobJune 16, 2014October 1, 2017 Uncategorized 1 Comment
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Ravensthorpe ‘review’

Now then I’ve posted a review of our recent visit to Ravensthorpe reservoir, one of Anglian Water’s fisheries in Northamptonshire, in our Outside Yorkshire section, linky here.

BobJune 13, 2014October 1, 2017 Midlands, Uncategorized No Comments
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Scar House Reservoir ‘review’

Howdy. I’ve put up a new post in the fisheries section (North Yorkshire) for Scar House reservoir which we recently visited.

BobJune 13, 2014October 1, 2017 Wild Brown Trout, Yorkshire Stillwaters No Comments
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A veritable tying frenzy

  After struggling to find usable Klinkhammers in my fly box whilst at Scar House I knocked up these bad boys when I got back. The hook I used is the Varivas 2200BL which I think makes a nice profile…

BobJune 4, 2014October 1, 2017 Fly Tying, Uncategorized No Comments
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