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No rest for the wicked as the matches and reports are churned out by the blog factory, please bear with me if they’re slightly shorter and not up to their usual high (cough, cough) quality! It was another Summerhayes Sunday …
After a short week it was soon time to go fishing again and Todber Manor was the destination for Saturday’s match. As always, a cracking breakfast in the Lakeside Kitchen set us up for the day before it was time …
For my fifth match in as many days it was down to Revels for the Tuesday open. I met Parker ‘The Pole’ in Yeovil and bought his breakfast as it was his 70th birthday (he’s had a hard paper round!). …
Bank Holiday Monday and for part four of my angling pentalogy I was back at Summerhayes for another match on Longs. 22 fishing so a great turn out and when it was my turn to draw I pulled out 38 …
I wasn’t actually sure I’d be able to go fishing today as my amazing, lovely Mum passed away on Friday morning after battling a brain tumour for the last five months. It’s been a horrendous time for my Dad and me watching her deteriorate and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone but at least she’s at peace now. I didn’t really want to spread …
We were back on Longs for this match and I fancied a draw on the far side, something like peg 2 again would do me but by the time I stuck my hand in the bucket there was only one ball left, a quick look revealed my home for the next six hours would be peg 29. I must admit I was a …
I always get quite excited when I’m contacted by a company and it’s usually to ask if I will review their latest products on the blog, to me it’s a huge privilege and an unexpected perk although I’m also not that naïve to not realise it’s a good way of getting very cheap advertising. So when the latest e-mail pinged into my inbox I was …
I was a bit late getting to the draw this morning and as I walked into the pub I was greeted with a huge cheer! There was another good turnout of twelve anglers today and over the course of the league we’ve had twenty different anglers fish, which is fantastic to see and just goes to show what a great little venue the pond …
The last time I fished Summerhayes the match was switched to Longs so I knew it was supposed to be on Sellicks today and when I phoned Pete to put my name down, he confirmed it. That didn’t stop me from hoping he might have a change of heart again but on arriving there would be no such luck this time and Sellicks it …
In my recent post Fishing and (anti) Social Media I touched on why us anglers are our own worst enemies and also method and bait bans. Before I get on to the latter, there was a prime example of why we don’t do ourselves any favours in the angling press and all over Facebook recently. It was reported that the five hour …
The three matches I’ve fished in this league so far have been a real mixed bag and swapping and changing methods hasn’t helped. The feeder has been winning most of the matches but I’ve tried it a couple of times without much success, so today I was determined to just fish the pole. I got to the pub for the draw and …
This match was supposed to be on Sellicks but after losing some skimmers a few weeks back it hasn’t been fishing very well for silvers so I was relieved when I got there and Pete said he’d moved us onto Longs today. With only eight of us fishing it was also to be a rover style match so I was hoping for a …
After the last match here where I sneaked a win on the pole in bright and sunny conditions, this week it was fairly overcast and I thought bream and skimmers would probably win it today, so I made sure I had my feeder rod and a reel thingy with me again today. I got to the draw at the Oak and along …
Another first for this blog, my latest interview is with a World Champion, Dean Barlow, one of the England squad that were recently crowned World Feeder Champions! Against Men and Fish – Hi Dean, first of all a massive congratulations to you and the England Feeder Team on becoming World Champions and retaining your title, a fantastic achievement. What did you do to celebrate? …
