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For you Mr Fish, anything!

I’m blessed down here mate, they’re rare enough to be a novelty! (For me at least!)

This time last week, I was sitting on the beach in Montenegro in 25c heat, cooling my toes in the crystal blue waters of the Adriatic Sea, my mind kept on wandering back to the sandstone cliffs and muddy clay of my local mark, and the urge to be out bass fishing was getting to me! I even looked...

This little tale starts on Thursday morning, when I take a wander into town with wifey and baby in tow, whilst enjoying a stroll along the Stade, I just so happen to pop into the local tackle shop for some new line. Well, it would be rude not to take a score of live lug home with me, wriggling...

Well I’ve just spent a nice half hour refurbishing my lug pump with brand new flip flop washers, it could suck a golf ball through a garden hose now! Really shouldn’t leave it 5yrs to service it next time 🙄

Still the Leeda rods mate, I won’t be parting with them! They are perfect for my patch of shore line which is mainly clean sand/clay with the Diawa 7HT multis attached. Note to self, the coasters need some WD40!

First sea fishing report for a fair while! So wifey has been badgering me for a bass for her tea, telling me that I’ve spent quite enough time after carp, so with my marching orders given, I headed down the beach yesterday armed with my trusty lug pump to collect some fresh worms for the first...

Just got back from the last session of the season on the estate lake, won’t be returning until next winter now, my boy joined me for an overnighter so he could try out his new brolly. (Fox easy brolly - really like it, might have to get one myself!) We arrived at lunch time yesterday to be...

I tend to chop and change, I am an avid carp angler, go all year round. But when spring appears, the bass bug bites and I hit the beaches looking for bass on the local beaches

Last night was another short notice overnighter on the old estate lake I’ve been targeting this winter, probably only have one trip left before I renew the club book and get back on the park lake. Weather was mild with overcast skies and showers. The frogs were active in the margins, always a...

I found the “beach section” at the far end of the sea wall/promenade much less snaggy

Last night I managed to get the rods out at the old estate lake, once again I was the only one there, it was a cold and frosty one, but the hot water bottle at the bottom of the sleeping bag did the trick. I chose to fish each near margin with the rods placed under overhanging trees in about...

Got the rods out last night at an old estate lake I last fished over 20yrs ago. The weather was cold and foggy but the rain held off. I got the rods out just on dark after seeing a fish show a rod length off the far bank. The action was steady all through the night, which was a bit of a...

It’s not the done thing to turn up, fish one overnighter (all season) and break the club record apparently

Yes, LSD will give you flashbacks… 😬

The rave days are long over! 😔

Well it’s always a shock pushing past the sphincter muscles mate… 🙄

After catching that big common last week, I have suddenly found myself unwelcome on the park lake, so I headed over the boarder into bandit country (otherwise known as Kent) to have a dabble. I headed to Dove lake at Hawkhurst (so I didn’t venture too deep into Kent, about 500yrds!!) I couldn’t...

Well this trip is going better than expected… It’s absolutely lashed it down, the water level has risen 6-8” and I had a screaming take just after midnight, I got soaked through playing a big old lump and eventually it rolled into the net, it looked good but the weight blew my mind 42lb...

Out for an overnighter on the park lake tonight, it’s not fishing at its best, but you never know! Due to baby duties and work, I’ve not actually put much time in here this season and am yet to bank one this year. I’ve had a few issues recently with the tiny bobbins on chains I usually use...