Last weekend I went out to Merida to run the bank for Drennan Team England, it was a brilliant experience in the spanish sunshine. The sunday match air temperatures reached 46 degrees C, this has to be the hottest day Ive ever experienced and with very little breeze it was hot, hot, hot.I didnt arrive until the thursday evening before...
Saturday, was the first match of the season on the Bristol Avon, this is my local river but I hardly ever fish any matches on it. This season will be different as the Div 1 National is in August and my Dorking team mates will be defending our title.This match was fished at Newbridge, just downstream of Bath, there is...
This weeks match was the best of the year, wet and windy weather made the fish feed, even though the weather made the fishing uncomfortable the bream and skimmers loved it.Dean Malin made a rare appearance at Baltic Wharf, but went home a lot happier after catching 26lb 8oz of bream on a groundbait feeder and red maggot.Second on the...
On Tuesday I did a feature for Total Coarse Fishing at Shiplate Farm, nr Weston Super Mare. The object of the feature was to catch some of the large bream that inhabit this lake, the lake record is 11lb+ and a recent catch included 13 fish for just over 100lb, lots of potential for a really good feature.Sadly conditions were...
This was the first time Daiwa Dorking have ever qualified for this event and I was really looking forward to it, I was looking forward to fishing with the sun on my back after our lovely british weather.I checked the forecast before we left 38 degrees, awesome.I fished this venue about 6 years ago in the under 22s, so I...
Things are slowly getting better as the weather warms up, Thursdays evening match was the best for a while despite the clear water and the breezy conditions.Top rod was Pete Ellis who had 2 bream and some skimmers for 15lb 4oz, caught on the pole with groundbait and red maggot. Pete is using a sweet groundbait containing sensas magic, fishmeal...
