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Proper bream – in bright sunlight. - Alton Water, Suffolk, UK. Tattingstone Wonder, right-hand bank. Air temp high 24 °C, low 16 °C, Wind 6mph, rising to 14mph, easterly. Air pressure 1010 ris...
3 hours ago
Going Gently

Hard Hearted Bastard - I was buggered yesterday. The acuity rating of our patients is high, which essentially means they are complex and need a great deal of nurse intervention ...
3 hours ago
The Strolling Bones Trailtrekker

Solstice - I awoke at 03.30, the faint light already penetrating the room. A quick cup of tea, the rod and net packed on the bike, lures in my pockets and I was off...
7 hours ago
Pike Blog

London (3) - They might not be Trent giants - but sat by the *Small River* catching barbel on floating crust is a rather spendid way to waste and afternoon. Think I co...
9 hours ago
Magnon's Meanderings

Pesci Friday. - I do try to keep to tradition, and eat fish on Fridays. If I didn't I probably wouldn't eat fish at all. For lunch it was *Moules Mariniere *(borrowed p...
11 hours ago
Against Men and Fish

Summerhayes – Open – 8th June 2025 - Sunday it was off to Summerhayes for a match on Sellicks and there was a great turnout of 20 anglers including Tom Thick, Hoffy (who I hadn’t seen for ages...
13 hours ago
Spitalfields Life

Last Chance To Save Liverpool St Station From The Monster Block - . . Behold, the twenty storey office block that Network Rail wants to plonk on top of Liverpool St Station. Note the height of Grade II*-listed Great Easte...
16 hours ago
PEANUTS FISHING ADVENTURES - THE RIVER IRWELL AND BEYOND.

A Bit Of Pin Fun Midweek. - I managed a few hours bankside this midweek playing with my pin and a few small waggler floats I have been using for paste fishing. I must say it was red...
18 hours ago
Fishin' Impossible

Reely odd first fish - Date fished 20/6/2025 9.45am until 1.45pm A red hot day, weekend, week, but I had the day booked off work. Once the kids left for school, I decided to jump...
23 hours ago
The Two Terriers

Opportunists at the seaside - We've just had some time in the West Country and on my walks around the village with Lucie I was intrigued to see these lots of little succulent...
1 day ago
Of Esox & observations

Odonata provide focus - My, very jammy, encounter with that Southern Emerald Damselfly on Worth Marshes RSPB Res. has provided the spark for a continued dalliance with this won...
2 days ago
ANGLING WITH SHAUN

Speed Fishing, Bleak Match One on One - *The Ultimate Bleakathon* *FIND ME ON FACEBOOK* >>>click link below<<< In this latest blog post look at an often dying art if Bleak Fishing. One to look ...
2 days ago
The Fiberglass Manifesto

OAK & OSCAR - A Decade of Incredible Watches - Earlier this year, I spent a weekend with Chase Fancher of Oak & Oscar in Atlanta for the Fly Fishing Show and during a late night chat, we talked about wh...
2 days ago
Fishing & stuff ...

That was a long ol' day - When I checked the tide times for my next days off I couldn’t make up my mind between fishing the morning or evening tides. Having caught Smoothounds on...
2 days ago
Piscatorial Quagswagging

Warwickshire Avon - Fool's Errands and Fooliaminy - After much debate, a few muttered expletives, and a daring expedition involving a GPS, an OS map from 1994, and the blind optimism only a Suzuki Jimny ow...
3 days ago
Old Marmalade

FROM THE RIDICULOUS TO THE SUBLIME - The, sadly no longer with us, Traditional Fisherman's Forum was responsible for many like minded anglers finding time to fish together. Just before it...
3 days ago
From the banks of the Wye

Just One Cast - The 16th just hasn't been the same for me since I began Spring carp fishing. That, plus the Wye rarely starts with much gusto. Gone are the days of plann...
4 days ago
wheatnotcasters

June 2025 -Part 1, the shortest one yet! - June has been a busy month with family commitments meaning I have been as far afield as Yorkshire (family) and Shepton Mallet (for an Antiques Fair acting ...
4 days ago
Small Stream Reflections

Saying goodbye to Mom - It is with heavy hearts that we share that our Mother Jeanette passed peacefully at home Friday, June 13th, after her long battle with Alzheimer's & Vascul...
4 days ago
One Man and His Rod

Tench Campaign Part 4. - Well as the river season draws ever closer and the thought of stalking monster river Rudd and feeling the tug of the bronze torpedos as I get my 40 R...
5 days ago
stevetheangler

Session 9 – And Onto Another Pool… - So, Friday 13th June (should have realised the date maybe?) I set off again … slightly later than the last couple of outings at 0545 … heading again for Ki...
6 days ago
The Urban Fly Fisher

Highland Picture Dump - A good AirnB, good chat, good food and good fishing – cannot really ask for anything else.
1 week ago
sidestreambob

POSTS ON CONSECUTIVE WEEKS AT LONG LAST: THE WEEK ENDING 8 JUNE 2025 – SHIFT WORK - I’d be interested to know where the Council found the budget for the new signage from (see also Nature Notes below) I feel I’ve wittered on a bit recently ...
1 week ago
Connecticut Fly Angler

The State Record Brown Bullhead - I called Noah with a fish flopping at my feet next to an old fiberglass spinning rod. It was a rather exceptional one, and also one I wasn't terribly co...
1 week ago
Fishy Business, an angler's journal.

Gravel Pit Tench - After a series of trials fishing for tench [here] on my previous blog, the time had come to put my rigs into practice for a really big tench. A Cotswold ...
1 week ago
ordinaryangler

06/06/2025 - Briefly back down Bill's - Had a meeting with a new financial advisor down near Studley in Shakespeare country, so took the opportunity to use my Birmingham Anglers Association tic...
2 weeks ago
Not Quite Scilly

Normal Service Resumed - Most of this blog's very few 2025 posts have been about little more than the moths I've seen and the birds I haven't. Normally they attract a modest read...
2 weeks ago
Fishing Through Life

The Tungsten Bead Krystal Bugger - *In the second week of April, I published a post discussing this small 1/16 oz. bugger while fishing for bluegill on a windy morning at Walker County ...
2 weeks ago
The Secret Angler

Masterclasses and other showbiz - There seems to be an insatiable appetite among anglers for instruction. At one time there were only the fishing magazines with endless repetitions on how t...
2 weeks ago
an anglers diary

Tenchy Trials and Tribulations! - I’ve probably said this before but, Tench are a bit of a bogey fish for me. Despite spending time each year fishing for them they’re not a species that has...
2 weeks ago
an anglers diary

Tenchy Trials and Tribulations! - I’ve probably said this before but, Tench are a bit of a bogey fish for me. Despite spending time each year fishing for them they’re not a species that has...
2 weeks ago
Welcome To My World

🌞 June 2025 - Passionate about much, obsessed about nothing.
2 weeks ago
Cluckers Peg

Viaduct Fishery Open Campbell Lake - Another chance to practice for my upcoming trip to Viaduct and to have another crack at the silvers. I was a bit tired Saturday morning after an evening w...
2 weeks ago
A fool at one end...

Laid there like you do when you reach a certain age. - Had an itch I needed to scratch, and as I haven't been able to get out during the recent storms I found myself with a couple hours free to scratch that i...
3 weeks ago
Something Fishy Going On

A silver thread in a ribbon of green. - Keen to catch a few more freshwater species, I popped out in the evening earlier this month to target a couple on the Water of Leith. The river which run...
3 weeks ago
dig your fins

Coast To Coast - Latitude: 57° 54′ 10.308″ N Longitude: 5° 33′ 31.758″ W | Mellon Udrigle A few weeks ago, Mrs Weir and I travelled North. A long way North. And living as w...
4 weeks ago
John Richardson Lino Prints

Lobster Pots - The second in the series of chapter headings for ‘A Tide of Fish’. This time the homemade buoy that is the marker for a string of lobster pots. I must admi...
4 weeks ago
Struinen door de Polder

Sweden 2025 - Fishing the dream!
5 weeks ago
Lewy's Lines

New Zealander Feeder Champs, Lake Whangape, 25th April 2025 - After relocating back to New Zealand and shipping all the match tackle from the UK, I finally had the chance to try some NZ coarse fishing. How better th...
1 month ago
HUGH MILES - WILDLIFE ADVENTURES

SCREAMING FOR HELP - It’s early May and the swifts are back, scything noisily through our skies in celebration of completing their ten thousand mile non-stop round trip fro...
1 month ago
The Tuesday Swim…

Living with the Cuckoo People showing in London - https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/the-offbeat-folk-film-festival-presents-tied-to-the-land/ On May 13th 2025, Living with the Cuckoo People will be sho...
2 months ago
AndrewBlackFishing.co.uk

Bass on Lures - Bass can be caught on more or less anything, I often pick a few up each year while fishing for other species such as rays, and smooth hounds, so they are n...
2 months ago
Becks and Brown Trout

First signs of summer and first on a dry - Last season this upland stream was new to me , it was great to fish during those first few weeks when the high waters everywhere meant that this little ...
2 months ago
Just One Week

Upside Down and Round About - It's been a full 6 months since I last wrote, primarily because I didn't have anything useful to say, and when the time came to think about the annual MCX ...
2 months ago
OFF THE OCHE, DOWN THE RIVER

Blythe - River Blythe 4:50pm to 6:45pm. Overcast. Calm. 9C dropped to 5C. River normal. Fished 2 swims. 1 chub. 2lbs+. Worked from home so I could grab the...
3 months ago
OFF THE OCHE, DOWN THE RIVER

Blythe - River Blythe 4:50pm to 6:45pm. Overcast. Calm. 9C dropped to 5C. River normal. Fished 2 swims. 1 chub. 2lbs+. Worked from home so I could grab the...
3 months ago
By JAYZS

I Have Not Fallen Off my Perch but.... - Well, where have I been? Maybe that is what the very few who read my blog have been wondering. Does anyone know or care that I disappeared? Probably ...
4 months ago
Whiskey In A Snipe Glass

A new shotgun? - Today I'm thinking about guns. Sitting here this morning watching through the window a hundred, (maybe more?) little birds flip from the front-yard bir...
4 months ago
Behind the Sky

Epiphany - January and, a day late for Epiphany, a deep orange winter sun sits low on the horizon and sets the …
4 months ago
FishnDave

December 28, 2024 - After realizing I was close to achieving 500 Koi on fly (lifetime), I decided to get after them one more time this year. It was tough, fish weren't part...
5 months ago
Fishing Diary

Spring/Summer/Autumn 2024 - *How did we get here? * I hadn't been to the river Bain for nearly a year and a half. Anywhere I frequented with my dogs I initially avoided as a kind of...
5 months ago
this northern boy

The Innsmouth Lights - Originally begun on social media, written post-by-post, 140 eldritch characters at a time, here is my Lovecraftian tale of the Massachusetts town of Innsmo...
5 months ago
Pete777

Unusual Pictures 20-12-24 - This car appeared after the water had dropped when we was pike fishing . Once the water went to summer levels the car was on full show . I caught a Gard...
6 months ago
Avon Diary

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6 months ago
Postcards from the English Outback

Forgotten Fen- Book Released - It’s here! I’m very proud to announce that my book ‘Forgotten Fen’ was published yesterday by The Medlar Press. John …
7 months ago
Jorvik Angler

Nearly Cut Off By Flood Water - When I arrived at the river it was up and slowly rising. By the time I'd found a swim it started to rise a lot faster. The swim I found had a slack on t...
8 months ago
Fishing Fiend

Holiday Fishing On The Algarve Portugal - I took the family to the Algarve for a fortnights beach holiday and of course took a fishing rod with me. The kids just wanted me to play with them, so I o...
9 months ago
Lumbland

More tackle talk - For a few years now I've been using leger stems for my eel fishing. I know full well that when the line is tightened they don't stand upright, but once t...
11 months ago
Lumbypics

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1 year ago
Diary of a Riverkeeper on the River Test, Hampshire

Mine Shafts, Floods and The Harwood Arms - Happy New Year everybody, Covid for Christmas, which is not what we asked for and resulted in a funny forty eight hours of sleep, sweating and unusual d...
1 year ago
Kevin Parr | Writer, fisherman, amateur naturalist and sometime Idler…

Everything Changes - My reaction to a swallow alarm call is only marginally slower than the intended benefactors. I don’t always get to see the source of the concern, and there...
1 year ago
Tony Rixon's days out

I,m back - As a lot of you will be aware, i had my van stolen back in mid july, with over £4000 worth of tackle in the back, i got up on that sunday morning , looked ...
1 year ago
Invisible Works

Nick Groves - Nick and I used to speculate a lot between us about the various assortments of stone we’d spot in buildings which probably didn’t originate there. Some o...
1 year ago
a good place for a cup of tea and a think

Sam's Cafe, 40 Chalcot Road, Primrose Hill, London - A bright and friendly place in Primrose Hill. It had a celebrity opening. It's got a shelf of old LRBs. Cafes aren't dead. You can self medicate the milk. ...
2 years ago
Bryans Countryside Capers

POINT CLEAR…… - No, I am not going to write about an old Swayze/Reeves film from the 90’s, Point Break for those that don’t know and if you
2 years ago
Ivan's Angle

The first post of 2023...... - I have not fished many matches this year hence the lack of activity on this Blog. I did fish a match on the Gloucester Canal back in early January but I ...
2 years ago
The Adventures of The Angling Rev | Stewart Bloor's Angling Journal, updated every Saturday

This morning’s angling session, pottering around the garden, a visit to Sedgley and a reminder that home is where the heart is - I’m enjoying the current mild spell that we’re in and, although it’s still February, it most definitely has the feel … More
2 years ago
River Anker

Grindr - Variety is indeed the spice of life and my lack of update here is principally due to the fact I've been doing the same thing over and over again for some...
2 years ago
Glassjet notes

Photos: 'Manchester stands with Ukraine'. - 5th March 2022. I was there more to support it than photograph it, but there you go. Ukrainian flags over Manchester
3 years ago
River Trent Angler.

What to do when you cannot fish anymore? - As I mentioned in my last post, my wife needs my care, after 32 years of a good marriage, I’m happy to step up. I’ve brought myself a little MG sports car ...
3 years ago
Overnight Carp Sessions

BIG SUSSEX PERCH - Perch – certainly one of the UK’s prettiest of fish and a predator too. During the 1970’s this species took a right hammering and many fish died due to a...
3 years ago
The Hopelessly Optimistic Angler

A fly on the Rye - A generous invitation arrived for a day’s fishing on one of North Yorkshire’s premier rivers, the Rye. For one reason or another I haven’t done a lot of fl...
3 years ago
Bailey & Fishing

Content - The post Content appeared first on Bailey Boho.
3 years ago
Fishing Tails

Fishing after a storm - With the latest Atlantic storm battering the South West you could be excused for thinking that it might be a good idea to just stay at home this weekend ...
4 years ago
Monkey Climber

5 questions to Forge Tackle’s Enrico Parmeggiani - Forge Tackle, one of our loyal print advertisers, is a fairly new brand to the European carp trade, based of years and years of experience in the field. Ba...
4 years ago
Hedgehogs in a Thanet garden

One year into my adventure - If it hadn't been for the situation created by the pandemic, I'm not too sure that the garden hedgehogs would have played any part in my life? Encounter...
4 years ago
The Near Bank

Theoretical Angler – the answer to a question nobody asked - Define: Theoretical – ‘concerned with or involving the theory of a subject or area of study rather than its practical application.’ How do I define my fish...
4 years ago
Wivenhoe library unveils new scheme to make books less boring — Wivenhoe Watcher

Wivenhoe Wombles in audacious plot to invade Norway - [image: Unruly militant attempts to steal Wivenhoe dog’s raison d'etre] Unruly militant attempts to steal Wivenhoe dog’s raison d'etre Following a bought...
4 years ago
The Smell of Weirs

- *The call of the pike part 2, (with a chub thrown in).* There is something compelling about pike. Of all our freshwater fish their call, for me, is the m...
4 years ago
Edgelands Fishing

Certain Days - I often find myself day dreaming about what I’d like to be doing on those certain days or little periods of the year when things change. I’m talking about ...
4 years ago
Fishing small streams

Brook trout camp 2020 - *A small pond on a clear spring day*Here's a few pictures from some Adirondack pond fishing from last week. Tpyical of the mountains, the weather ran the...
5 years ago
Balearic Kitchen

Thea's Ned Kelly pie - *Another week, another recipe. This time around we have a guest contribution from Balearic Kitchen friend Thea Everett. A leader, a hero, and a certified...
5 years ago
Streamside diary

Thinking of Pike - The last time I fished for Pike was a couple of years ago and that day turned out to be a bit of a disaster, I was fishing from my float tube and hooked a ...
5 years ago
Tim's Riparian Ramblings

Rolling Meat - Short Session on the Severn - Mid-October and I managed to fit in a short evening session before the clock's changed. The river was up so I headed to a local beat where there are a few...
5 years ago
Footsteps of an Angler

It's Been A While. - It's been seven years come March since I last sat down and wrote on these pages, it wasn't that I didn't want to write anything, I was just out of the hab...
5 years ago
Looknfishy

Fly Fishing Arkansas and beyond... - So it looks like 2019 rolled right into 2020 without me really noticing much of a change in my fishing lifestyle. Most of my recent adventures have been w...
5 years ago
Tales of a Fisherman

Winter Chub Tactics by Harry Pardoe - When winter sets in and most species become harder to catch the good old Chub can become an Angler’s best friend. It doesn’t seem to matter how bad the wea...
5 years ago
North East Piker

After work chub - I usually try and fit in a short session after work at least once during my 5 days on, usually arriving at the chosen river after 22:00hrs and setting off ...
5 years ago
Scarfolk Council

Welcome to Scarfolk... -
5 years ago
tales by the riverbank

A time to write… - Over recent years I have found it difficult to write, not that I didn’t want to but simply my mind … Continue reading →
5 years ago
Float, Flight and Flannel

The Pre and Post Christmas Rush - PRE-CHRISTMAS Sinking into the marsh, subsequent steps no deeper than before but each consistently sucked in by the peat-like soil, slowed the walk but...
5 years ago
River Angler

Time to start updating again! - Six months since I last looked on this blog, with available time and fishing motivation failing me somewhat. I have been fishing, but often seemed to be fi...
5 years ago
Kevs catches aka Kevin Sanders

Roach fishing. A catch of a lifetime! - For some time, I had known of a lake not too far away from me that had a history of big Roach. In the past I believe it had produced a fish of 4lb or ma...
5 years ago
Kevs catches aka Kevin Sanders

Roach fishing. A catch of a lifetime! - For some time, I had known of a lake not too far away from me that had a history of big Roach. In the past I believe it had produced a fish of 4lb or ma...
5 years ago
BRYANS ANGLE

WALTON PIER - After my whiting bash a couple of weeks ago i decided that i fancied another trip out sea fishing but somewhere different to my normal stomping grounds. A ...
5 years ago
The Joy of Essex

West Ham Legends hit Brentwood - Best part of the weekend was going to see 'West Ham Legends' Trevor Brooking, Julian Dicks, Frank McAvennie and Tony Gale at Brentwood Live on Friday nig...
5 years ago
How to drown maggots

I went fishing! - The lake had a few leaves on it... Since making the move to Kent, back at the end of June, my fishing activities have been severely curtailed due to life...
5 years ago
Fishing the Irwell - A Fly Fishing Journey

2019 - The trout season draws to a close - Its been a while since my last blog, too long in fact but then again ive only been on the river 7 times since my last blog, back at the beginning of May. ...
5 years ago
thinkFish-catchFish

‘Silver Treasure!’ - After a couple of stick float sessions on the River Dee and Dane, waters that I love, I just felt like I needed a bit… Continue reading‘Silver Treasure!’
5 years ago
WHERE GREEN ROADS MEET

Roadside Stalls No 2 - The drive home along some winding north Dorset roads yielded this treasure trove of locally grown apples from a smallholders orchard...
5 years ago
Avon Angling UK

Canal Fishing - Another Great Session - 31/8/19 (Video 126) - The video of my lastest session is now available to watch by clicking the link below. *Canal Fishing - Another Great Session - 31/8/19 (Video 126)*
5 years ago
Rieg's vis weblog

Zout - Naast het vangen van allerlei vissoorten in het zoete water zoek ik ook graag mijn vertier aan het zoute water. De Nieuwe Waterweg is slechts een kwartiert...
5 years ago
Fish's angling diary.

The witching hour…. - The weather has been fine for a good few days,hot all day and the evenings just about bearable.last night I decided to do a late evening fishing session at...
5 years ago
Mike Townsend Fishing

Roll on the 16th! - What a frustrating and scary period the last few months have been. Sorry once again for the lack of updates, but fishing time has been very scarce as you’l...
6 years ago
The Lure of Angling

Romanian Angling Club UK spring predator race - Hawksbury junction - I was really looking forward to this match being put on by the Romanian Angling Club. Along with the Polish anglers I see regularly on the local lure ci...
6 years ago
drifting the riffle

When not to fish - I hesitate, fly line coiled at my feet, ready for the cast. It is beautiful. The pool is beautiful. Hauntingly so. The picture is perfect, so vibrant ye...
6 years ago
Simply Fishing, Fishing Simply

More Bits, Bobs and Tips - Having written about a few things I make or use and tips & tricks a few years ago I thought do should do an update. *Blackout* Although I find that for ...
6 years ago
The Flee & Float

Almost There! - Well it's that time of year again, when anticipation of the new brown trout season only a mere 24 hours away got the club members out onto the banks but no...
6 years ago
Sometimes Just Being There Is Enough

Not many fish - When I originally started this blog my fishing was alot different and fish came regularly but the last couple of years has , as those who read these rambli...
6 years ago
Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

Taff Grayling and Trout - I'm not sure the advertising gurus at Starbucks had thought this one through!? It did amuse us though when we called in for a coffee on our way to South ...
6 years ago
lagomlagomlagom

Cronk - I saw a raven today. It flew over several times as I was watching fieldfares a couple of miles from home, and cronked – a deep, slightly hoarse call, a noi...
6 years ago
Blogs from the bank: Carp and Coarse fishing

Looking back at 2018 - My syndicate lake in the autumn. Finding a balance between work and family life can be tricky enough at the best of times but throwing an obsession with ...
6 years ago
eastcoastavocet

Food on the Edge - Twice this year, I’ve rolled along the Wild Atlantic Way down to Galway City and twice I’ve been enchanted and captivated by an innate passion and sense of...
6 years ago
Monty Dalrymple and the View From Yat Rock

All The Big Perch Are Gone - I don't tend to bother with the blog anymore, it's too much of a chore and to me, it's not as much fun as it used to be. But I keep hearing from people tha...
6 years ago
Danny's Angling Blog

Simple Float ledger Rig For Pike Fishing - Hello and a warm welcome to this weeks angling blog i hope i find you all well and your nets wet. The first frosts have arrived and for some on social med...
6 years ago
The River Angler

Ruddy Marvellous! - Thirty five years ago I committed my most heinous of angling crimes. It was a beautiful simmer’s day on a Kent gravel pit. I spent many hours here as a...
6 years ago
Norfolk Coast with the National Trust

7th of August: Goodbye from Ajay - This is my last week as a ranger in the Norfolk Coast team. I have lots of happy memories from my various roles at Blakeney over the last nine years and a...
6 years ago
Duncan Charmans World of Angling

Positive ID please! - Positive ID please! I've always considered this to be a personal best salmon, caught years ago on a size 18 hook and double maggot from the River Itchen. I...
7 years ago
The Chopped Worm

PB Tench 11lb 3oz - *05/06/18* - After some great success on another lake bagging fish up to a new PB of 8lb 14oz it was time to move back onto the main lake in search of tha...
7 years ago
Angling Buckley's Fishing Adventures

Thunderstorm Tench - Thunderstorm Tench Home for the weekend and having spent a day fishing & filming with Carl & Alex and Alain Blair of Nash along with the excited chatter ...
7 years ago
Andrews of Arcadia Scrapbook

Ghosts of Wimbledons' Past - Seen for sale at Kempton yesterday, signage from the much lamented Wimbledon Stadium.
7 years ago
TOSTE

Tread lightly – leave little (not litter) - The Essex coastline, like every other, is constantly shifting. With each turn of the tide, within each rolling wave, the place where sea meets land changes...
7 years ago
Against Men and Fish

River Isle - Open - 4th February 2018 - In last weeks post, I shared some great feedback I'd received, I wasn't 'angling' (if you'll excuse the pun!) for nice comments but it would seem that the...
7 years ago
Northwest Fisherman

Canada, small rivers and just why the hell do we bother? (Entry 218) - Did you know that the UK is on the same latitude as some places in Canada? If it wasn’t for the gulf stream we would be literally up to our necks in the wh...
7 years ago
Idler's Quest

Unfinished Business - Numbskulls - I have a great deal of never-published-material in the IQ archive. This article was probably worth putting your way at the time of writing. But I started, ...
7 years ago
An Anglers Dangling Log

Looking Back and Looking Forward - Well its time for a round up of last year and it was eventful for the first 6 months of the year then it all sort of went down hill. I decided early on ...
7 years ago
All things considered.

First Editions: Re-covered - Three artists well known to St Jude’s followers, Christopher Brown, Mark Hearld and Rob Ryan are involved in a fund raising project for The House of Illust...
7 years ago
Unmitigated England

Running On Empty - The subdued lights of the Jaguar's dashboard gave Philip's face a greenish pallor as he eased the big car into the entrance to a farm gate. The fuel gaug...
7 years ago
Mike Kelly's Water Log

Memories - All that is needed for a busy day... It's been 27 years since I last lived in Deal. Twenty seven years is a long time. Just under half my lifetime - i...
7 years ago
Ben Hennessy's Blog

New Rods – Making Moves - I expect most keen coarse anglers own a rod or two dedicated to fairly specialist tasks – perhaps a crisp, fast action float rod, designed solely with long...
7 years ago
Hampshire Angling Adventures

River Carp Stalking - I arrived back at the river very enthused after sighting quite a few fish on the opening day. It was not long until I had spotted a few familiar suspects f...
7 years ago
The Intrepid Piscator

I'm Back - The clanging of agricultural gates and rutted roadways. The dodging of the cow pat and nervously passing my bovine companions. Pigeons arguing among the...
7 years ago
Russell Hilton Fishing Blog

Canal Tench - Something Green, Somewhere New - In spite of living within relatively close proximity to the Grand Western Canal for a decade now, there are still parts of it that I have not fished proper...
8 years ago
Travelling Man

A Suriname Adventure. - Each January for the past several years I have travelled to South America along with Joe Taylor and other likeminded anglers. Joe is the linchpin having ...
8 years ago
A Fishermans Journey

December Predators - So December started with my now annual pairs lure match which I organise on the Trent and Mersey canal each year. This year it was kindly sponsored by ec...
8 years ago
My Dipping Float

Pay back. - After a few cold blank trips in sub-zero conditions I finally managed a nice fish. Taken laying on after long trotting with maggots for two hours, I final...
8 years ago
CROOKED LINES

Fish Leather Books, New Website & Blog! - Greetings to everyone. You may or may not have noticed a few changes afoot with my site and blog. There is also some rather exciting news to share, which I...
8 years ago
Bureboy's Halcyon Days

#10 Finding Nemo in amongst the Monochrome Set - Thus album was mostly one of my black and white phases.. This tench is from the first day of a season, can't remember which one and it was from the Match...
8 years ago
The fish don't know

What’s in a name…? Part 1 - The Fish Don’t Know – that’s the name of this blog. Fishingforluckies – thats the name of the website. What do they mean, these names? Why did I choose the...
8 years ago
Ronald Blythe...

What do we know of the weather and the world, asks Ronald Blythe - The weather forecasters wear their best clothes to tell us the worst. That the sun will not shine today. They have no language for dullness. But I have. O...
9 years ago
HULLO!!...Can you hear me now?....I'M ON THE BUS!!

SPRING DAWN (a call of nature) - Awoken by a call of nature this morning I decided it was light enough to venture out earlier than originally planned. I had set my alarm for five am bu...
9 years ago
The Pike Pool

Gold Rush! - *By Paul Millar (aka, Paul_the_piker)* Summer arrived early in good old Blighty this weekend! The mercury was touching 25 yesterday and it was far too warm...
9 years ago
A Specialist Anglers Diary

A specialist anglers year, part one - Despite my best intentions to try and resurrect my writing at the start of last year it all went to pot I'm afraid. After taking over the new business we r...
9 years ago
Norfolk 'N Good

Pike don't like Mondays - or do they..? - This one hit the lure and threw it in a tailwalk, before it chased it half way across the drain and nailed it under my feet. Not the biggest pike I've ...
9 years ago
This Angling Life

Check it.. - I post a bit on face book these days and have a "This Angling Life" face book page. It's far easier to use than blogger especially on a mobile or tablet...
9 years ago
A fool at one end… and a camera on the other

Shame about the advert… -
9 years ago
Bureboy hits the HInterland

Crib. - Summer time and Tribe Bureboy departed for more pleasant climes. Benfarras. Just outside Vilamoura on the Portuguese Atlantic Coast. Off the N125 and acros...
9 years ago
River Piker

Back on the perch - It seemed to be over in a flash. The river season is well and truly closed now and it's time to look elsewhere. I've had a little dabble on the canal and ...
10 years ago
This Saxon Shore

Proper Essex, This Is - Tucked away on the southern bank of the wide expanse of the Stour estuary, Wrabness is a place that you'll love if you like hiking, biking, fishing and st...
10 years ago
Retiarius

Loading the Correct Amount of Backing on Your Fly Reel (And a Tip for Greys Streamlite Owners with Pawl Issues) - At this is the time of year, with the dawn of a new game season a few tantalising weeks distant, fly fishers are wont to untie the old rod bags, assemble ...
10 years ago
Northessexfishing

Blog Transfer - All my musings, half baked theories and embarrassing spelling mistakes will now be made under the following blog....... www.thestrollingbones.blogspot.co.u...
10 years ago
bureboy's pictures

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10 years ago
pullmyline

Suspenders! - Now that the rivers are forbidden, we have to turn our attentions to lakes, pools and canals. There's a very small pool 5 minutes drive away which, despite...
11 years ago
Talking Essex

John Sait - Angler, Ex Charter Skipper, Shooter - Many people who have been fishing the Essex coast for some time will be familiar with John Sait. He moved to Thorrington in 1962 and has fished, on and...
12 years ago
Salt and Fresh

This blog is moving! - This blog is moving to http://saltandfresh.wordpress.com/ Please join me there! I am going to -hopefully start blogging more often, especially now the trou...
12 years ago
Piscatorial Pastimes!

Chilly Chubbing in January - Over the last month I have been predominantly focusing on the Warwickshire Avon around my local area. To say that the weather has effected this has been a...
12 years ago
Pure Piscator

Thurlow Graig "Spinners Delight" vintage angling book. - The great angling fellow Thurlow Graig. fisherman, DIY tackle maker, naturalist, writer and well travelled cowboy writes about making tackle and catching...
12 years ago
Fish Tales From The Riverbank

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Chasing Myths

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Tales of a fairly average angler

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Saturday, 6 December 2014

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