I hope I am wrong, but I hear on the grapevine that we could be in for some massive price increases on bloodworm and joker coming into the country. The recent shortages seem to have caused a few problems in Russia and the only Joker available is coming from Poland - hence the price increase.It looks we might not get...
Yesterday I fished a local lake, the air temperature was 13 degrees, the water temp was 8 degrees, there was a lovely light south westerly wind blowing and it was a real joy to be out on the bank, hard to believe that less than 3 weeks ago we were fishing through holes in the ice.During the afternoon carp started...
I have recently done a feature for April issue of Pole Fishing Magazine, and I discovered a few interesting things.Carp are changing the underwater shape of the lakes, when they feed, they dig holes in the bottom with their sucking and fin action, when you get a lot of carp in a small area the amount of silt and mud...
This is a quote from the late great Ivan Marks, this is a quote I shall never forget, especially when you draw one of the 80% of pegs without the fish.The water temperature was 4 degrees and was filmed on the 12th January at Blackthorn fishery.Watch this clip and you can see what he means. Follow us on Facebook by...
Spring came early for this match, a sunny day, very little wind and an air temperature of 12 degrees or more meant a lot of anglers fished in a tee shirt all day.The previous weekend the CIPS practice match on the saturday was won with 24lb on the pole and the sunday feeder match was won with 32lb so everybody...
Thursday evenings match was moved to a different area of the docks, Welsh Back, this was the first time this area of docks has seen bait for 10 months, so nobody was expecting 'brilliant' results.The same 'hardy' 12 anglers fish every week, even when a couple of weeks ago when we were getting minus silly temperatures, they still went. Im...
Thursdays evening match, was the best for a long time, now that the cold weather appears to be behind us 'fingers crossed'. This match was fished on the Mud Dock and Police Launch reaches.The docks were a nice colour, the air temperature was 'almost' mild and the wind was gentle, and the skimmers fed better than they have done for...
Spring is one of the best times of the year on commercials, there is a real chance of a massive weight, when the conditions are right.Ive caught some of my best ever match weights at this time of the year. The ideal conditions are when we get the first few sunny days of the year and it is combined with...
Before Xmas all the locks in this area of the K&A were chained up due to the lack of rain, the water sources that keep the canal topped up were extremely low, so British Waterways stopped all boats using the locks.My first thoughts when I heard was 'great' a canal with no boats, this stretch has a marina at Great...
There is no bloodworm and joker coming into the country again this week. It is also likely there will be none next week either.Ian Didcote is running a match to CIPS rules this week on the Gloucester Canal with B&J banned and punch allowed on the hook.If there is no B&J next week this is how we propose to run the league...
