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Freelining For Chub

At a glance it appears horrific, strewn with dumped household items, prams, bikes, mirco-waves, umbrellas; but slip the polaroids on and...

Family Picnic (And A Big Common)

With covid-19 restrictions being relaxed and a spell of warm weather taking hold over Lincolnshire we took the opportunity as a family to...

Bread 'edges'

Watching big carp bask in the sun amongst a plethora of weed with their shoulders creating bow waves across the surface and tails...

Highlights of 2019/20

Having not scribbled a blog post for over a year I had better square things up. The 2019/20 season was extremely kind to me and I managed...

Someone looking down on me

Arriving down the syndicate armed with the floater gear I catapulted Warburton's finest into areas where I have had fish taking surface...

Overgrown banks and urban chub

With the young'uns in bed and the approving nod from the Mrs confirming I had a pass for the evening I jumped in the car and headed to...

Catch Cult 7- Progression

A couple of short extracts taken from a piece I have written for Catch Cult and was featured in Edition 7, simply the fastest growing...

Reservoir perch...

Returning to the Midlands resevoir that myself and Aaron had success at earlier in the season, we arrived to find the venue only 60% full...

PB tipple in the rain...

In the May of 2017 myself and 3 other friends ventured out onto a Midlands reservoir in search of the perch shoals that populate its...

Tidal Trent addiction....

The Tidal Trent in appearance can be daunting- from is bleak sand bank stretches to its boulder lined rugged bends. It can have the most...

Big Perch- PB to heartbreak....

Back in the middle of October I had a successful session on a Midlands Reservoir with Andy, Giles and Kev; landing my biggest perch to...

New swim, first cast result...

Having sat in an air conditioned committee room all day, stepping out of work a wall of heat hit me instantly. Rushing home from work and...

Relegation, wind and rain...

Having been rained off at cricket at mid-day and subsequently relegated from the Lincolnshire Prem the rain continued to hammer down...

A double to kick off the 16/17 season...

Having started preparing for the new season well over 2 months ago, my first session was some what on hold as the 16th arrived and...

Ending the season with a lure pb...

With the arrival of my daughter Isla 6 weeks early on the 11th January 2016 I have obviously not had a lot of bank time with her and...

It only takes 1 run...

Some times in angling you can get wrapped up with a specific water, chasing a species over a certain weight or a certain individual fish....

Chub on Hoobait Company pop up flakeys...

Hottest day of the year so far and armed with a a packet of standard original flakeys and pop up flakeys I headed onto the small...

Sunset on the Tidal Trent...

The end of the working week is finally in sight again and I have been watching the weather closely since my last session on Monday and...

Toft Newton- Stripping lures...

With the afternoon off work I met up with the old man to try and land a few trout at Toft Newton, North Lincs. What seemed quite a calm...

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