Well it’s been a hectic past few months for me on the angling front, especially with the birth of my daughter back in July but despite this I’ve still managed to get out as much as possible and sneak a few fish […]
Big Pit Piking December has been a very busy fishing month for me with many hours spent on the bank piking and a couple of social sessions for the carp thrown in for good measure. I finished up carping at the beginning […]
I first came across Earith carp lakes way back in 2004 after a grueling summer spent chasing a handful of fish in Long Reach at the St.Ives Lakes Complex, although managing to catch a couple, with it now been October, finding somewhere […]
Its been extremely cold lately but after a couple of enjoyable rod bending trips to Chestnut Pool I think it was time to fish for something a little more serious. About half hour drive from my home in Cambridgeshire there’s a small […]
Mud Everywhere Like everyone else over the Christmas period I was fed up of being housebound and not only that, the lakes have been frozen half the time too. It drives me mad! I had been out the country in New […]
This week I’m back down Birdlings Flat and conditions are far from ideal though! Its been raining here all week but the weekend has come good with temperatures just reaching double figures again. I arrived to find the sea a lot different […]
Its been a lovely mild winters day here today due to a strong northwesterly wind blowing, and a perfect day to have a bash down Birdlings Flat, so thats what i did! I arrived to find a strong backwind blowing which would aid casting and […]
Its Autumn time here in the South Island of New Zealand which means the trout are starting to gather in numbers further upstream to get ready for spawning. So I thought there may be no better time to head off down the […]
As promised here is the next installment. I pitched up at about 1 o’clock and headed for the far corner of Coots lake but after an hour of fishing it just didn’t seem right with no signs of fish in the vicinity. […]
With the sun out at last I needed to get out and do a little fishing. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how carp fishing is all consuming and how the other species are all neglected. So I rummaged around in […]