Let me give you some blog writing advice. Specifically…writing an angling blog post is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. First you have to get the creative juices flowing, then you need to open proceedings with a…
2 Go Wrong in Wales
Not a lot to write about here but it’s still going in the blog. Back in November myself and Stu drove down to Wales for a pike fishing mission on a water I’ve fished once before (catching my pb pike)…
Brollies and Trollies
I’ve been holed up most of Winter with various injuries and ailments going increasingly round the bend. However last weekend I was finally fit and well enough to do something fishing related but alas the rivers were bollocksed. However…
Assynt…err..Gairloch blog 2017
Last year’s annual fishing holiday blog post kicked off with something about how I’d left it late, the leaves were starting to fall and the fishing was season coming to a close etc but I did at least have…
Bloody big pike!
Evening folks. Still not even started this year’s annual fishing holiday blog but in the meantime here’s a quick post about a pike fishing trip with Stu last weekend which resulted in me catching my biggest ever pike! It is…
Early season pike fly fishing
After boxing off a load of chores on Saturday I had Sunday free to do as I pleased which meant I could go fishing for the first time in ages. Stu wanted to have a crack at the pike…
More Winter piking
Last weekend the weather seemed pretty much bang on for another attempt at deadbaiting for pike – a couple of adjacent days of cold, hard weather but a bit of intermittent sunshine so we decided to hit a favourite East…
Sitting in a chair hoying dead fish into a lake
As must be painfully obvious to you all by now I don’t just fly fish for trout. I also teeter on the edge of pike fishing addiction. This esox-obsession led me to attend a charity pike fishing match for members…
Assynt err Gairloch blog 2016
“Well this could be the last time This could be the last time Maybe the last time I don’t know.” Once again I find myself finally getting round to documenting this year’s annual Assynt Gairloch fishing holiday whilst the leaves…
Pitsford/Eyebrook weekend
As many of you know I am a member of a Leeds based fly fishing club known as the Roundhay Fly Fishers which was formed when a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t…