For those that love to chase Barbel, Korum have the perfect selection of Barbel Rods to complete upgrade your gear and enhance your performance at the riverbank.Korum tackle is known for its dedication to design for the modern pleasure and specialist
I usually start my blog with a weather status update; this one is no different - its only the weather that is different! Two weeks ago we had snow and overnight lows of minus eight. As I sit and write this it's 21 celsius outside, the daffodils are
Nowadays a Wensum barbel is like gold dust, very far and few between; I feel privileged to catch the ones I have.The first one I managed to catch was quite lucky, I was swimming in the river with a couple of mates as it was school holidays, when I
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It's time to toughen up...WHEN IT COMES to retaining attraction on your hookbait, water is enemy number one. Glugs and dips offer an instant boost in appeal. But unless they’ve been soaking for some time, they
Seems like we haven't had a spring this year; one day it was cold and blustery, the trees were bare, and only the odd early spring flower was making an appearance, the next it seemed like summer had arrived, the trees were in full leaf and the
At the end of my last Blog I mentioned that my local river was in major flood, the major flood continued for a good few days with some damage to local properties and several roads closed due to flooding. The good thing was as the flood was caused by
This time last year we were wrapped up against the cold wind, the river was low and clear and on a few occasions we struggled to fish as the line was freezing in the rod rings. At the lowest point the temperature hit minus 13, so its crazy to think
After a busy season running a fishing guest house it was great at last to think about getting out and doing some fishing myself. We have had a very dry summer so the river has been low and clear with very little flow, hardly ideal barbel fishing
So, the plan was to move to France, live by a river and go fishing whenever I wanted. Dreams are all very well, but the reality of the last few weeks has seen us working flat out both with repairs on the house and with plenty of visiting anglers keen