The recent heavy rain finally stopped, the wind stopped blowing, the sun came out and the fish stopped feeding. This has been the pattern on a lot of venues this week, we may not like fishing in the wind and rain but the fish love these conditions, quite a few local lakes have stopped producing since the sun has come...
The recent rain has kept the pace and colour in the river and the whole river, top to bottom, has been fishing well. The Chippenham area of the river has seen big weights of bream and plenty of roach and chub have been showing above Bath, there has even been double figure nets of bleak on some pegs. Monday's evening...
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...
Baltic Wharf is starting to hit form, the weather is getting warmer and the fish are starting spread into this area of the dock after spawning, a couple more weeks of this sunshine and the docks should be at its best.Pete Ellis and Pete Sivell tied for top spot this week with 10lb 3oz, Pete Ellis caught a bream and...
This is always a popular day out for everyone working in the trade, kindly put on and sponsored by Daiwa, it was well attended by over 50 tackle dealers from the southern half of the country, the farthest traveller that I knew about was Scott Smith from Brum.Gold Valley has been fishing its head off lately, Will Raison has caught...
