The start of the spring campaign came straight after my syndicate had reopened in late March and I had planned to do an overnighter during the week after work. With the weather being unseasonably mild and the trees having buds on them early this year
Here come the summer fish! The weather has been lovely over the last fortnight and this has allowed the charter boats to get out regularly where we have enjoyed some excellent sport on the thornbacks.Inshore
The fishing inshore has been superb with
This spring I'll be mainly targeting tench! The opening three weeks of the season on my fishery hasn't exactly gone to plan but I’m saving my holiday for later on in May and June, when it really can kick off! At the moment, I'm being restricted to
You’ll all be aware by now that Dave Coster joined the Angling Direct team this month. He has been living in the North East of England but has now settled in the Midlands, where he is eagerly exploring lots of new fishing venues. Here’s his
Is targeting a double figure tench a bit ambitious for a blog or even the kiss of death for my angling success? Perhaps, but I’m nothing if not determined, so here goes…With the river season over, it was time to dust off the tench gear and I was
Match-Style Carp Angling on B2After a very hard winter nation-wide, I’m pleased to say this blog details some early spring success for me, spread across two sessions on Linear Fisheries in Oxford. I first started venturing to Linear when the
It seems like as the river season closed in the UK, over here in France the fish woke up and were hungry. Over the last few days, the barbel and chub have been on the feed and I have managed plenty of decent fish, breaking my river barbel PB in
I’ve just finished setting my tench rods up for my first session of the spring! I'm really looking forward to doing a bit more fishing now but it’s been a different story for the last six months…Up until the last few weeks of the river season
Coming into the last couple of weeks of the season, I was planning to go full steam ahead with two stretches of the Wensum. After giving my other half the bad news regarding my plans for the coming weeks, I was set and raring to go. My fishing was
The last fortnight has seen a big influx of thornback rays into all the inshore areas in the Thames Estuary. These fish are early this year but with the lack of cod they are very welcome.We are starting to see some big female rays with one reported