Feeder Files – Episode 5
The fifth instalment of my popular little Feeder Files series sees me tackle a beautiful estate lake at Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire. Skimmers are the target in this very shallow and silty lake, so...
Category: Skimmers
Bob Taylor Memorial
A lot of people know that Bob ‘The Maggot’ Taylor was one of my all-time angling heroes. A larger than life character, he ran the first ever canal opens I ever entered with his...
Lots Of Species At Jubilee
Over the past few years I’ve been fortunate to spend some lovely days on the bank with my friend Bede. He really likes to catch silverfish on float tackle and we’ve already sampled a...
Meat Shallow!
My latest Channel Members film is all about catching shallow with meat. This hour-long instructional film was shot at the fabulous Meadowlands Fishery on the big Lambsdown Lake. Not a Channel member yet? Learn...
Two Great Days On The Skimmers
It was the Angling Trust Zerofit Silverfish Final at Barston Lakes today and I’ve drawn my thousandth end peg of the year. The rather famous peg 124, arguably the best carp peg in the...
The Winter Classic Final
I was on the excellently run On The Flyer TV Winter Classic Final at Meadowlands Fishery on Sunday in association with Halkon Hunt and Bresbet. A frightening list of star anglers involved and a...
Respect To A Great Man
On Friday it was the great Mike Hamlington’s funeral. As you’d expect, it was absolutely packed with anglers like myself paying their respects. I owe a lot of my angling career to the time...
Silverfish Finalist!
On Saturday I journeyed all the way down to Monk Lakes in Kent for the AT Silverfish qualifier. A disappointing turnout so we were all on Lake 3 with just one qualifier going through...
Canal Cure
I am on a truly ‘great’ run of form at the moment, as I haven’t weighed in on my last three qualifiers, ha ha! Clearly I’ve not got things right, drawn great or been...
Canal Tactics!
My latest film was an eventful day on the Grand Union Canal, fishing multiple swims with different baits. Bread punch, pinkies, maggots, casters, worms and groundbait are all used to great effect. Hopefully it...
