And a worm on the other. Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman. Read the tide time wrong again and after a hurried phone call to confirm my mistake made a quick walk to a mark that was no where near where I was intending to fish. I had been waiting for these conditions and times to come together for a while now and to get it wrong was very frustrating.

I expect most keen coarse anglers own a rod or two dedicated to fairly specialist tasks perhaps a crisp, fast action float rod, designed solely with long trotting pacy rivers in mind; an ultra-light lure rod that brings to life the most tiny little jigs; or even one of the legendary Drennan Tench Float rods, designed for, erm.

This was the largest of the fish, caught from a swim in which my rod tip almost touched the opposite bank! And then the snow came! Unsure why the is one came out blue? All in all I am really enjoying it, having caught in many different swims and thus far not blanked, landing 17 fish in 8 outings. As the water clears and settles I aim to fine down and fish the stick in suitable swims. Saturday, 17 November 2012. Bit of a catch up.

July 26, 2014 by Gary Stevens. Following a short session on the small stream mentioned in the previous post, I was handed a load of spare maggots by fishing buddy Steve. July 24, 2014 by Gary Stevens. This plant could ultimately lead to severe river bank destruction if not eradicated and.

I did have a few trips before christmas. Most notable was a Pike session in November on the Tees which resulted in two double figure fish. the 1st was 10lb 15oz. The 2nd was slightly bigger at 11lb 5oz. Both caught on popped up deadbaits. I also lost another two.

Taken from the BBC website. Thursday, 19 August 2010. August Bank Holiday - Bishops Bowl nr Leamington.

Tuesday, 14 July 2015. Was the fish Slim Baxter caught from Lomond. Was a strange thing to happen.

An account of days spent fishing on canals and other natural waters. With the odd puddle thrown in too. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Canal and River Bream - Good Things Come to Those Who Prebait. I was getting bites every put in, mainly from roach, which seemed to be more than happy feeding in amongst the bream. I then took a section off and immediately hooked an even bigger fish, which I played very carefully, as elastic streamed out of the top kit.