Jon Arthur's Blog

Round One Fun

Packington Winter League – Round 1 Where’s all the water gone? That was what I was asking myself after setting up on Big Gearys peg 19 for Rd1 of the Packington Winter League! This...

A Tough Silverfish Section Win

Packington Silverfish League (Guesting) Autumn is well and truly here and this was an interesting, albeit very tough, silverfish-only match on Molands Lake at Packington. I had agreed to guest for Simon Farmer and was...

Weekend Warrior

I have finally managed to rekindle my blog! It’s been offline for several months now as I wanted to upgrade the back end and do things a little differently this time. It’s took this long to...

The Match: Packington Winter League

Live action during a 50-peg Winter League competition at Packington Fisheries. Hopefully it gives you a free insight into someone approaching a five-hour match on a mixed fishery where both carp and skimmers can...

My 2015

Aaah not bad! 2015 was the year that I learnt the jolly phrase, “Aaah not bad!” off some of my Northern fishing chums. I think that perhaps sums up my year in a nutshell… Doing The...

A Winter Silverfish & F1 Spectacular

A successful week competing in this year’s White Acres Garbolino Winter Festival! I always really look forward to a week of F1 and silverfish sport down at White Acres and this year was no...

Making The Parkdean Masters

I qualified for the £25,000 Parkdean Masters at White Acres for the second year running! Here’s my rundown from a great week spent at the Cornish fishing Mecca! What a great week down at...