They say the older you are the quicker time goes by and from where I’m sitting that seems to be the case, it feels like just yesterday I was sat on a frozen river bank catching chub on bread. Fast forward a few months and it feels like an early
AD Wroxham Re-OpensFor those of you who are regulars at AD Wroxham, the wait for your brand new Angling Direct store is finally over! We've been putting a lot of work in to bring our very first store up to the modern, forward-looking standard that
This spring was a total contrast to last year's; the fishing couldn’t have been any better. After I got back from my holiday I did a 24 hr session with Justin on a lake that was fairly new to me. The weather wasn’t particularly great, clear skies
I’d done as much fishing as I could fit in at the back end of the river season without taking any time off work, and when it ended, I’d planned to work right through until mid April, when I would begin to target the gravel pits.My first trip of
I finally got near the Wensum in the second week of January, an after-work session with Justin. The river was still up a bit, and pushing through, but it was fishable. The first swim I dropped into was where the river widened a bit; I was fishing
I had got all my pike stuff ready in the weeks leading up to the start of October, and was really looking forward to getting out after them. I managed three days in the first two weeks of October, for a grand total of 1 dropped run! Not the start I
By the 3rd weekend in August it’d been a full month since I last did any sort of fishing, and I was really looking forward to a couple of days on the Trent again, going after barbel with Justin.Justin picked me up around 4pm, loaded the van and set
After all the time I'd had off in the spring to chase moody tench around, I’ve had to catch up with some work lately so my fishing has been a bit limited. However, a few of the local members of The Tenchfishers had organised a day’s fishing for
It has been a while since I put the tench rods away. What a tough season it was on Bawburgh Lakes. Between the end of March and early July I did about 650hrs, mainly behind 3 rods, but occasionally getting the float rod out instead. I was a bit
How moody do these tench want to be this year?I have just got back from a week long session and it was a real struggle trying to find some feeding fish. Looking back on the week, it was quite a rewarding time but there was a lot of moving around