A Specialist Anglers Diary

For the majority of the country's river anglers the winter just gone was incredibly frustrating, I kept telling myself that it was selfi...

I always used to class chub as my favourite species. I think that goes back to my youth when a bonus chub would be the highlight of a days f...

I initially said that I would have a couple of days fishing for the monster pike of Chew Valley reservoir just to say I'd been and leave...

Although I had made a conscious decision to do more barbel fishing on the river Trent this season circumstances had until recently limited t...

If you've been reading my jottings for a year or so you may remember me taking my two nephews fishing, if not here's the post, Angli...

A little earlier in the summer I had been messing about in a swim on the Derwent that holds a lot of barbel but which is a devil to fish, th...

The river Trent is about twenty minutes from my front door at its closest point yet over the years I have neglected it greatly in preference...

For years I have known that the River Soar held a few zander, odd reports came in of fish caught accidentally by pike anglers but to be hon...