Who said the weather was slowly improving! Since I wrote that we have had a frost every day and some have been wicked! It would be great to have some nice settled weather before the...
The weather is slowly improving and the fish are finally showing some signs of waking from their winter slumber and spreading around our local waters. But we are still getting the odd...
It’s a funny old game this fishing lark, I spend hours getting ready for matches turning casters and making rigs and at the moment seem to be continually drawing the wrong end of...
Sunday couldn’t come quick enough for me as I was really looking forward to the Individual league at White Acres; I seemed to have a van full of gear as all fish were included. I...
I’m having one of those runs at the moment when the ‘Bag of Dreams’ is not being very kind to me, it’s definitely the bags fault you understand nothing to do with my fishing...
I actually predicted the peg I drew on Saturday but it’s the last time I’m trying that game, its back to moaning about the peg I draw from now on! It was the teams of three winter...
It was great to be back on the bank again after the ‘Cornish Ice Age’ and what a difference a week makes! Last week we had 6’of ice everywhere and not a match in the region and...
I managed to sneak out for the last chance open at Gwinear on New Years Eve and it was an absolute belter to end the decade with. We had enjoyed a mild spell for around a week so I...
There I was thinking that I was well ahead of my self when I knocked a cup of tea over my lap top! Oh man I was not impressed especially as I had just penned a couple of thousand words...
The Mosella Garbolino Winter festival at White Acres is the one that I enjoy the most out of all the festivals that I fish. It is much smaller with around 60 anglers taking part but...
Saturday was the start of a very busy period on the fishing front for me with the prospect of nine back to back matches to attend! I was looking forward to all of them but I have been...
There was no let up in the wind on Tuesday but that didn’t stop a better than normal turnout at Gwinear. As a result phases two and three were chosen for today’s match and that...
The winter individual league at White Acres is one series that gets most people out on a Sunday down in the SW. This year it is a 16 match series with your best eight results to count....
With nothing booked for Sunday I was pleased to get a call from Harry suggesting that we went to Stafford Moor. There was a silvers match on Tanners and it would be great to get a feel...
With the opening round of Kernow Match Groups three man winter league about to start I thought I better get myself around to Gwinear for another go at the Tuesday open. Overnight...
The alarm rang at 3.30am but I was already awake with the excitement of going to Ireland to fish in the Irish Ferries sponsored ‘British King of Clubs’ I picked Harry up at 4am...
It was good to see 20 plus anglers milling around the car park at Gwinear, it felt like a ‘big match’ for the bank holiday open. I had heard that Gwinear was on fire but what I...
It made a nice change to fish three different venues this week. The first was the Tuesday match at Gwinear again the turnout was on the low side, consequently only one lake was used....
I was looking forward to last weekend’s fishing as we were to be on the White Acres complex for the Cornish Championship. Saturdays match was on Twin Oaks, Acorn and Canal in the...
The long awaited weekend finally came and I set off to the midlands to compete in the Angling Times Maver Pairs final at Larford, It really is fantastic to qualify for a major final...
I actually managed two trips during my enforced sabbatical from fishing over the last three weeks and I have to say they were both red letter days, I am very grateful for friends that...
I have had a couple of close matches recently and the trend continued with a blinder at Mawgan Porth last Wednesday, the sun was shining and the lake looked terrific, there was not...
Sometimes I think I have got this fishing bug bad, Wednesday was the perfect example! I left Yorkshire after a great few days of fishing, socialising and he odd bit of business...
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