Jon Arthur's Blog

Top 10 Again!

White Acres Garbolino Winter Festival 2023 Here’s a quick(ish) rundown of my Garbolino Winter Festival down. Ninety anglers from all over Europe descending onto White Acres down in Cornwall, hoping to get in the...

Back In The OTF Final!

Fresh back from a great week at White Acres I’d got a ticket for the On The Flyer TV Silverfish Classic at Makins today. Bit tired after five windswept days in Cornwall and seeing...

Runner Up On The Classic

I have just had a really nice and varied week, fishing all sorts of places, topped off yesterday with the runner up prize on the 70-peg Garbolino Stratford Classic. I kicked off the week...

Pole Feeder!

The river’s up, coloured and tanking through! Combine the awesome catching power of a feeder with the accuracy of a pole and bag up! Yes everybody, it’s POLE FEEDER time!

Good Sport On The Wey Nav

I fondly remember a visit many years ago to the Wey Navigation, shooting a feature for Match Fishing magazine with Simon Willsmore. It’s a narrow, shallow and flowing canal that joins the River Wey...

Autumn Session At TBF

Always plenty of bites at Tunnel Barn Farm at this time of year and that was certainly the case when I was there with Adrian recently. We headed for the middle of Canal Pool...

Barston Bonanza!

I keep forgetting to pop these pics up from a cracking day at Barston Lakes with my good friend Craig Wood and his lad. Lots of quality fish were feeding well on the bomb...

Plenty Of Bites At Lower Park

A few pics from a great day spent at Lower Park Fishery with Carl and Heidi a couple of weeks ago. I think we fished Highland pool and I was really impressed by the...

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...