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The last few years, there have been lots of great silvers competitions including the Angling Trust, Fish South and now, new for this year, the Fishing Masters. Even better, one of my favourite venues, Acorn, is holding several qualifiers and …
I love the matches on the upper Parrett during the Summer months, it can be tricky but it’s interesting fishing trying to catch the 3lb which is normally enough to get you in the frame. Stoke hold a series of …
I’ve been dreaming about drawing peg 40 at Acorn for years and on Saturday for Foxy’s latest match, I finally managed to pull it out the bag but would it live up to my expectations? I set up a rigs …
After a pretty disastrous start to the weekend yesterday, I was hoping for better things at Summerhayes on Sunday. A lovely breakfast at the bowling club set us up for the day (thanks Charlotte) before we headed to Bridgwater. We …
After a disaster in the first match I needed a good result in this one or my league was over already. I got to the draw in good time (yes I remembered to put my clocks back!) and there was another decent turnout and Langport invader Baz Morgan had turned up to mug us all again. I reckon he must have got his …
Chard AC juniors held their Xmas Fayre match at Perry St pond yesterday, conditions were good and the rain held off for the duration of the match and they all had plenty of bites. Chard always hold it early as sometimes in December it’s not much fun for the youngsters when it’s freezing cold! Zoe Hollister had the best weight on the …
After no fishing for two weeks I was really looking forward to getting back on the river and I can’t believe how mild it is considering it’s October. I got to the Oak for the draw and there was a good turn out of eleven including Big Frank and Jake and it was really nice to see Steve Hurford there plus all the regulars. …
With no fishing for a couple of weeks, I thought I’d just post a little rambling update, After a blistering first half of the year where I won loads of matches and caught new pb’s all over the place, things have slowed up somewhat (well they had to at some point I suppose!). Since my last ‘rambling’ post (which can be found …
After a long but very enjoyable day yesterday, I was off to Summerhayes with Janders today. I’ve only just finished the blog for the Dorset Stour and as I’ve got to be up early again tomorrow and it’s now 22;27, this will be a fairly short blog (thank God I hear you cry!). There was another good turnout today with 18 fishing …
My mate Steve Hurford offered to take me barbel fishing at Throop on the Dorset Stour as a thank you for giving his wife Sally all the info I could to help her arrange a surprise trip to Gillhams in Thailand for his 50th birthday earlier this year. Steve arranged all the day tickets etc and Scott Russell very kindly leant us a couple …
It was the last match of the Summer League today and another lovely day, I got to the Oak and it was nice to see Mike Board fishing today although we were down a few who had fished the last match. In the league Fieldy had the title sown up already although Rob and Bruce would fight it out today for second …
It was back to Summerhayes today and I’ve been struggling here a bit of late, when I phoned Pete to put my name down he said it would be on Sellicks and possibly Lily (oh no!) depending on numbers. On arriving there were quite a few cars there already and I knew there would be some pegs on my least favourite pond. …
After getting a soaking on Monday, I was relieved to wake up and see the sun shining through the window this morning. I loaded the car and was quite looking forward to a nice days roach fishing and on arriving at the pub for the draw, it was actually quite busy as a few more new faces had turned up. Big Frank …
On waking up, the forecasters had got it right for once as it was raining, I got to the draw and although it was wet, it wasn’t too windy for a change. I said hello to everyone and had a coffee, Rob Kingston paid me his pound from yesterday but Reece wanted double or quits which I agreed to as you’re more likely to …
