Category: River Isle
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 9 – 17th February 2013
I should have known better than to post an update yesterday on how well the fishing was holding up on the Isle (but more of that later). I awoke this morning and was greeted with a frost but the outlook for the day was still quite bright and it looked like being a lovely day. I got to the pub and the …
An update on the Isle
Towards the end of last year I did a little piece about how the Isle was fishing, since then the weather has been awful and most of our matches have been switched to the pond or the canal, we did manage one match at the start of the year where I blanked and another two weeks ago which I won. I’ve been …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 8 – 3rd February 2013
No rain on Saturday and although some was forecast for Sunday, it was all looking good for us to actually get on the river today. Loading the car up, there hadn’t been a frost overnight and the dashboard display was reading five degrees so hopefully we should be in for a few fish today. I got to the pub hoping we’d be on …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 6 – 6th January 2013
After a relatively dry spell we were actually able to get back on the river for this one, Rob messaged me on Saturday and asked where I fancied and I said the top end but on arriving at the pub for the draw it looked like he had put us down Isle Brewers. I fancied 120 (despite the walk) or 126 but …
Another Ambition Realised
When I started fishing back when I was ten years old (where did all the years go!), I was keen to learn as much as I could about angling and started buying all the fishing magazines. One of these was David Hall’s Coarse Fisherman and I still have a few editions from 1980, I’ve bought most of the mags over the years but …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 5 – 16th December 2012
We had quite a bit of rain on Friday and some heavy showers on Saturday which left me fearing we’d be on the pond again but Rob messaged me and said the river looked good and we’d all be at Redbridge for this match. I was really looking forward to it as the forecast was good for today and it was a …
The River Isle So Far This Year
After a really cold snap, it’s now cetainly a lot milder and the rain yesterday must have put some colour in the river so all the signs look good for the match tomorrow (I’ve probably jinxed it now!). I was just looking through the results so far and it makes pretty interesting reading, we’ve managed to get on the river eight times …
River Isle – Xmas Fayre – 9th December 2012
After several frosts, the temperature wasn’t too bad this morning, I got to the pub and it was great to see a decent turnout. Steve Bishop was back for another visit, Martin had brought the Old Fossil (Malcolm Levy) for a day out and Andy Welch, Ned and Dave Gudgeon were all fishing their one annual match. Rob had spread the pegs …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 4 – 2nd December 2012
Well the rain finally stopped, only to replaced by colder weather and several frosts, winter is well and truly here! It would interesting to see how the river fished today after it fished hard in the last match two weeks ago where only 5lb 6oz was needed to win. We had a frost in the morning but the temperature wasn’t actually too …
River Isle – Royal Oak Winter League 3 – 18th November 2012
It was round three of the Royal Oak league today and after winning the first two matches I was hoping for another good draw today. The trouble was we’d had the first real hard frost last night and combined with a low and clear river, it could be a struggle today. Rob had pegged Upper and Lower Coxes and I really fancied pegs …