River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 5 – 16th December 2012
We had quite a bit of rain on Friday and some heavy showers on Saturday which left me fearing we’d be on the pond again but Rob messaged me and said the river looked good and we’d all be at Redbridge for this match. I was really looking forward to it as the forecast was good for today and it was a …
The River Isle So Far This Year
After a really cold snap, it’s now cetainly a lot milder and the rain yesterday must have put some colour in the river so all the signs look good for the match tomorrow (I’ve probably jinxed it now!). I was just looking through the results so far and it makes pretty interesting reading, we’ve managed to get on the river eight times …
River Isle – Xmas Fayre – 9th December 2012
After several frosts, the temperature wasn’t too bad this morning, I got to the pub and it was great to see a decent turnout. Steve Bishop was back for another visit, Martin had brought the Old Fossil (Malcolm Levy) for a day out and Andy Welch, Ned and Dave Gudgeon were all fishing their one annual match. Rob had spread the pegs …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 4 – 2nd December 2012
Well the rain finally stopped, only to replaced by colder weather and several frosts, winter is well and truly here! It would interesting to see how the river fished today after it fished hard in the last match two weeks ago where only 5lb 6oz was needed to win. We had a frost in the morning but the temperature wasn’t actually too …
Dillington Pond – 25th November 2012
After rain of biblical proportions for most of the week, this weeks match was never going to be on the river, in fact with widespread flooding I wasn’t sure there would be a match at all! On waking up the weather didn’t look too bad outside and the drive to Ilminster was okay although there was a lot of water about. I …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 3 – 18th November 2012
It was round three of the Royal Oak league today and after winning the first two matches I was hoping for another good draw today. The trouble was we’d had the first real hard frost last night and combined with a low and clear river, it could be a struggle today. Rob had pegged Upper and Lower Coxes and I really fancied pegs …
V2V Fishing Dvd Reviews
I’ve just been sent two Dvd’s by the lovely Steve Lockett today (both from the V2V stable) and I’ve just finished watching them both. I must confess I haven’t seen an instructional Dvd for a while (in fact the last time I watched one I think it was on VHS!). The two titles Steve sent me were: Will Raison – Silvers On The Pole …
River Isle – V.E.S. Precision League 3 – 11th November 2012
With no match last week, I was really looking forward to getting back on the Isle and despite a frost overnight, the air temperature wasn’t too bad and it was a bright sunny day. Rob put some cracking pegs in and I fancied 14, 15 or 27 and the only pegs I didn’t want were 17 or 23. Heardy drew 23 and …
River Wye – Whiskers Wanted! – 4th November 2012
Justin Charles has been enjoying some great fishing on the Wye with barbel to nearly 10lb and pike to 18lb+ so with no match this weekend I jumped at the chance to head to Wales today. With the weather turning colder he thought we might stand a chance of a barbel or two but didn’t think we’d be catching as many as …
River Isle – V.E.S. Precision League 2 – 28th October 2012
After a freezing day yesterday I was hoping it wouldn’t be as cold today and as I was loading my tackle into my car it certainly felt quite mild. I got to the draw and had a quick look at the weighboards and Rob had put all good pegs in today, 27, 28 and 29 at Lower Coxes and 123, 124, 125 …