I don't usually endure atrocious weather if I can avoid it. However, yesterday morning we had a perching trip planned during what was ...

After testing things out near home and satisfied that things would work having hooked and banked a roach/bream hydrid at the lower end of ...

Had an idea going round in my head lately. There's this canal, you see. And it contains roach. Big ones and proven ones. Not ordinary ...

Crucian carp are one of those fish that are fairly easy to find round here. Perhaps I should say that fisheries that contain them are not ...

Wake at 4am. Try to get back to sleep but orexins have already kicked in and are firmly lodged on my receptors. That's buggered my cir...

Location: Coventry Canal. Subject: tench. Swim: particular. Arrival time: critical. Four O'clock in the afternoon is a little too lat...

Yes, I've held two British records for some time, possibly three, but without knowing it... The penny dropped yesterday. Whilst go...

Dawn fishing in summer is wonderful isn't it? The most romantic of all fishing experiences ever committed to print, it appears in every...

Second stint at the ressy started off just exactly where I left off last weekend. Same swim, same line, same bait, same plethora of bite...

Sorry for my sad broken rod, its tip dangling uselessly jammed against the float, I pushed the glass splint back in the splintered c...

Despite the fact that the swim I found once promised so much, it seems now that it is becoming something of a bore. It was discovered when ...

Another morning chasing the elusive silver bream of the Coventry Canal saw an earlier arrival than I'd made for the previous session, b...

Some time last week, perhaps Tuesday evening down the cut fishing with Norman, I became aware of a twinge in my leg. A kind of sharp ache i...

Quite liking the canal night sessions now that I've done a few. You don't see anybody at all. No one is around after dark in stark ...

Over the last four years I've got so used to fishing the local canals in the late afternoon, through evening time, and often an hour or...

The local canal is where I catch the odd fish that looks like a big roach at first sight, remarkably so on occasion, but who turns out to ...

Yesterday was a historic one in angling with no less than three anglers setting out from home with the sole intention of fishing for silver...

Before setting out yesterday for Stratford upon Avon and my beloved Lucy's Mill with Lee Fletcher, I'd spent the morning preparing ...

You may have noticed in recent posts that I am now the owner of a pair of buzzers? Well, I haven't used buzzers in decades - the last b...

Since the freeze thawed and temperatures soared to the heady 10, 12 even 13 that degrees we are currently experiencing during daylight and ...