Around 11 am the hammering rain stopped and the after affects of a night out cleared, the temp was an unbelievable 11 degrees so I chucked my kit in the car and headed off without a clue as to which water to fish, on reaching Newton abbot the traffic was crawling so I took a short cut over the marshes.
ROAD CLOSED FLOODS read the sign in the road I was staring at wishing I had stayed home,as I was about to do a u turn a little mini came the other way "you will get through in that big...

Having arranged to meet my pal Dave Taylor at the club lake yesterday I overslept and woke up feeling really exhausted after a heavy wet week at work,not one to let people down I threw a pole and chair in the car and drove down there .
Dave was sat at a double peg long pole fishing so I decided to sit beside him and fish a short pole so we could have a natter ,both of us expected it to be hard going and as far as the margins were concerned it was ,Dave on the other hand attacked the swim...

Well at last there we were at least most of us sat for a hearty breakfast after driving in terrible lashing rain ,the rain had by now all but stopped I suspect most of us had a sneaking suspicion that the damage had already been done,fed and watered we made the short drive to the fishery in my case for the first time where those that lived more local grouped on the car park, I was torn between dashing around the corner to get my first look at the ressy and the banter that goes with every match draw,I...

Well the swim was vacant and that was the highlight of my day,the monster Perch did not show up and I suppose I was kidding myself for thinking it would.
at the other end of the lake my mate Dave gave me a call to say a large fish picked up his worm on feeder tackle and nearly pulled his rod in snapping the trace in the process ..shame that Dave is a damn fine angler but a moments lapse in concentration on a clipped feeder cost him dear he suspects it was a Perch.

I did not expect to go fishing this weekend as the grandson was over so all week I have been transferring my gear from chair -bag to match box in readiness for clattercote, come friday my missus said why don't you go fishing saturday.
so it came about that I went and having fished the pin and lobworm for Perch for the last month I decided on a bit of pole fishing for Roach on maggot at a venue I blanked at on the worm last time,all went fairly well but something was not quite right and I...