If you fancy doing something a little different this season, I recommend a day jigging worms. All you need is a rod, a landing net, worms, and a bag with your tackle. Then spend a day walking around a lake, down a river, […] Read More
Category: Coarse
Catching Ide at Redbridge Lakes, Essex, Back in the days if someone said lets try catching Ide, I would have said, “I’m not going all the way to Denmark to catch an Ide”. 30 years on and Ide are being stocked in commercial […] Read More
There’s only one thing better than fishing. That is teaching a person to fish and watching them catch. That smile on their face is priceless. Now the other side of summer is firmly upon us I felt the urge for some autumn pike […] Read More
Early Years As a 12 year old I used to spend long summer days fishing my local river Roding for anything but pike. At that age the river seemed huge, the grass long, bugs and the fishing was always a challenge. The river […] Read More
Chopped worm for perch We are now heading into week 15 of lock-down during the COVID19 pandemic and the government had lifted restrictions on angling a few of weeks ago and had just lifted restrictions on meeting with friends. My daughter who hadn’t seen […] Read More
I’ve been listening to stories from my good friend and match supremo Graham Dack about how he catches 200lb+ of big carp pellet fishing high up in the water. After a lengthy exchange of texts he convinced me to “give it a go”. […] Read More