Summerhayes – Open – 13th April 2025
After a long day yesterday, I was flagging a bit when the alarm went off this morning but a bowling club breakfast sorted me out and I was raring to go once again! When we got to Bridgwater, the car …
More Random Ramblings
The blog is going from strength to strength and its now had over 92,000 page views which is amazing so a massive thank you to everyone who enjoys reading about my exploits and ramblings. On the subject of ramblings I thought I’d treat you to some more today. Adie Bishop sent me this great photo of Bill ‘The Pasteman’ Hopping and it looks …
Dillington Pond – Summer League 8 – 18th August 2013
I haven’t fished the pond for a fair while and it’s been fishing well with winning weights between 15-20lb and some quality fish have been coming out including some skimmers which is a great sign. To be honest I was expecting to get battered as I’m a bit out of touch with it but hopefully I should get a few bites. I …
Ilminster AA Junior Match – Canal – 17th August 2013
When Scott Jackson asked if I’d go down and cover the junior match on the canal today, I said I’d be more than happy to. I also contacted Bait Tech to see if they’d be willing to sponsor the event and the lovely Hayley has been fantastic. I popped over to Tackleuk to pick up some bait for tomorrow and the lads …
Summerhayes – Open – 11th August 2013
After struggling last week I was hoping for a nice days silvers fishing today, Janders was back from yet another holiday and fishing today as well. I’d received loads of texts from the Torquay Tart yesterday saying how he was going to whoop my ass (yawn, yawn – heard it all before) and I would need to bring a knife and fork …
Random Ramblings
I had intended to fish the Tackleuk match at the Viaduct today but with a long few days at work (makes a change I know!), I am properly knackered for the first time in years. I was going to do a Fishery Focus but nowhere really springs to mind, I did think about doing Chard Reservoir as it fished brilliantly last Sunday …
Summerhayes – Open – 4th August 2013
The match was on Longs today and it would be really interesting to see how it fished after Pete lost a lot of skimmers due to low oxygen a couple of weeks back. He phoned me just after it happened and he was gutted and I was gutted for him as I’ve really enjoyed the silvers fishing on Longs. He said he …
Return To Seaton Part 2 – 3rd August 2013
After seeing all those mullet last Saturday, we just had to have another crack at them and with the sun shining, I was only a few minutes late picking Andy up. We popped into the Tesco’s in Seaton for some loaves of bread before going to the little café by the tackle shop for a fantastic bacon and sausage sarnie, which has been …
Summerhayes – Open – 28th July 2013
The match this week was on Sellicks and Janders was coming along too, at the draw there was a good turnout of 17 anglers although I have to say I’m not a big fan of the 11 ‘o’ clock draw time as it means I don’t get home until gone eight. As always it was windy and it was blowing down towards …
Return To Seaton – 27th July 2013
I’ve been gagging to get back down to Seaton after those mullet and with all the nice weather we’ve been having, Andy said he fancied another trip. I was awake pretty early and looking forward to it although the sky was a bit grey. As always I was a bit late picking Andy up and after a quick pit stop to pick …
Summerhayes – Open – 21st July 2013
I was really looking forward to this one as I haven’t fished Longs for ages, speaking to Scotty who has been doing really well with silvers in the last two matches (weighing 46lb and 67lb), he had been catching on paste really short and said that my usual expander approach would just get ragged out by small fish. I decided to give …