Having been introduced into angling at a very young age, I've often found myself trying to understand many childhood memories and angling situations that I’ve witnessed. Most of these vague memories from years ago stem from my father's captures and
On Saturday at 5am Pete parked outside my house, ready to load all my barbel fishing gear in the van. It was the start of a week that we had been waiting for all year: our annual trip to the wonderful Ingestone Fishery, in Foy, Ross on Wye. If you
It’s always good to fish with friends and this week has been very good as ex-work colleague and good friend Hayden Cook joined us in France for a few days. Hayden is a good all round angler but loves his carp fishing, so we planned a bit of barbel
In my last post I gave you an insight into how I get the best out of what can be a tricky time to catch barbel, in the first few weeks of the new season. There’s nothing better to prove that my tips work than to tell you about a huge early season
A couple of weeks into the new river season, once the rivers have settled down a bit, is a great time to get on with some early season barbel fishing. On most rivers the barbel have now spawned, the heavy rain of the past few weeks has passed, and
Normally at this time of the year I would be getting excited about the upcoming start to the traditional river fishing season on the 16th, but this year, for the first time, I was out of the UK. Instead I spent the early part of June in France,
Being a traditional angler it took me a few years before I actually fished in what was the old close season, preferring to catch up on the decorating and gardening before the glorious 16th. However, over the last few years I have enjoyed the
Since successfully opening the river season on the Trent banking 7 barbel, I’d been keen to go back for another go, so a week off in October had colleague Richard and I heading off down the A17 for a couple of nights on the bank.We found the river
Our very own Allan Thornby, AD Ashford shop manager, has recently returned from a weeks Barbel Fishing on the river Wye. Fishing an area known as Ingestone Fishery, Foy near Ross, he had an amazing weeks sport landing huge numbers of hard fighting
On the 25th July myself and three friends Peter Scott, Jason Hodge and Ashley Mount, oh and of course my trusted fishing companion Musket ventured to the beautiful banks of the River Wye, for a spot of Barbel fishing. Two of the guys had never been