Category: Fishing Venues

Nice Ice Doodles

While patiently waiting for the van to defrost last week, I thought I’d pass the time with a quick bit of windscreen doodling before my fingers got frostbite!

Blankety Blank

Packington Winter League – Round 4 I cannot remember the last time I got up in the morning and said I didn’t want to go fishing, but yesterday was definitely one of those days!...

Hard Going At The Barn

Tunnel Barn Winter League – Round 4 This was yet another rock-hard day but nevertheless quite an interesting and rewarding one. Yet again I found myself on New Pool. I quite like this pool although...

A Memorable Winter Fest

White Acres Garbolino Winter Festival 2016 Here’s how I got on in this year’s White Acres Garbolino Winter Festival. No out and out flyers all week really, but still two very good results, two not...

A Clever PTFE Tip

I love a good tip; especially one I’ve not heard of before. That’s why I thought I must share one my friend Olivier Wimmer’s tips explained on French site www.peche-feeder.com. We have surely all had days where...

6th On The Silverfish

White Acres Drennan Silverfish Festival 2016 After two nice days I was really pleased to come sixth overall in the Drennan Silverfish Festival down at White Acres. It was an unusual format with no...

Fish Plates

While trawling through my archives for an image of a pike, I stumbled across an old series of illustrations I did that really took me back. I still cannot remember exactly why I drew all these fishes,...

Poked To Death

My friend Dave just texted me saying he was “poked to death”! I assume he meant ‘piked‘ but you never quite know! 🙂

Back To The Barn

Tunnel Barn Winter League – Round 2 Another high-pressure, flat-calm day with not a breath of wind. I actually like fishing in these conditions as I think presentation and feeding comes even more into...

A Mega Blowout

Packington Winter League – Round 2 This was a day I’d rather forget. In fact it’d been a few days I’d rather forget with quite a few setbacks but, hey ho. It was Rd2 of the Packington...