Acorn Fishery – Open – 16th August 2025
With Foxy away for this one, the reins were handed to his glamourous assistants, Paul and Glenn, who did an admirable job in his absence. The draw was announced and I pulled out 19 on the far side, an area …
With Foxy away for this one, the reins were handed to his glamourous assistants, Paul and Glenn, who did an admirable job in his absence. The draw was announced and I pulled out 19 on the far side, an area …
For round four of the Memorial Shield, we were back at Parrett Works and after drawing a bunghole end peg in the last match another good one was required today. Once we’d had breakfast and paid pools etc, it was …
Todber on Saturday and as always I was hoping to avoid the near end even though venue expert Ade Dew had actually won off 63 the previous week! The now established and patented ‘Hanging Back’ technique was employed once again …
I was hoping for a change of peg scenery as we headed back to Summerhayes the following day for a Stoke club match. It was well attended with the 20 anglers split into two sections and the payout for the …
Here’s my review of the last year January 2014 With the Isle flooded we were at Dillington for this match, I was quite looking forward to it and should have known better, I caught some good roach but lost a lump when the hook pulled and then managed to snap my 10 metre section later on. I finished with 4lb 12oz for …
With the year drawing to a close I booked into the mid week open on Longs, this was to be the last chance saloon for an envelope as I hadn’t managed one this month yet. I wasn’t confident though because as regular readers know, I like to fish for silvers and only 2lb 12oz was enough to win in last Sunday’s match. …
Ilminster didn’t have a match on this weekend so I booked into Summerhayes for my first match there since September. The weather is still incredibly mild for December although we have had the odd frost over the last couple of weeks. The match was supposed to be on Longs but Pete switched it to Sellicks as Longs was hard going on Wednesday with …
A couple of weeks ago I was contacted by Icon Films to see if I’d review a fishing app they were developing. I knew they were the company that produced the popular River Monsters show and for a moment (just a moment mind!) I got all excited thinking perhaps they wanted me to be the next Jeremy Wade! Any hope of my …
Anglers these days don’t realise how lucky they are where groundbait is concerned, when I started fishing some thirty five years there wasn’t the fantastic array of colourful bags that greets the angler today. In my local tackle shop you had the choice of brown crumb or white crumb which was sold in brown paper bags. The white crumb was stickier when …
I find it hard to believe it’s nearly Xmas again, where does the time go? After not fishing last week I was really looking forward to the Xmas Fayre match but with hardly any rain all week the river was going to be low and clear and after a few hard frosts it was likely to be hard going for some. I got …
I haven’t done a fishery focus for a while and a few people have suggested I do one on the River Isle so I thought I’ll cover the Ilminster AA stretches from Coxes down to Hambridge as these are the areas I know pretty well. I’ll try and point you in the direction of some of the better swims along with letting you …
My latest interview is a little bit different, on the back of my recent review of the FishBrain app I managed to secure a chat with the CEO of FishBrain, Johan Attby. Hi Johan, many thanks for agreeing to answer my questions as I realise you must be an extremely busy man, Against Men and Fish – For the readers who aren’t familiar …
We had quite a bit of rain overnight but I was still hopeful we’d be on the river, I got to the Oak for the draw and was informed we’d be on the pond today. I wasn’t too upset as it’s been fishing well and we should get plenty of bites. Baz was fishing again today even though there wasn’t much in …
Everyone has a smart phone these days and apps are big business and with supposedly millions of anglers in the UK alone, more and more apps are being developed that are aimed at anglers. I first became aware of Fishbrain some time ago, it started life in Sweden and I seem to recall it being touted as the fastest growing fishing app (don’t quote me on …