Buoyed by Wednesdays success, I headed to the river again today. This time, it was the river Wye in Derbyshire. The temperature finally dropped today so I wasn’t expecting any surface activity and during my 2 hour session, I didn’t see a single fish rise.   The beat had its full quota of rods so…

Today I had an eventful trip to a small, busy Cheshire river. This club water is heavily fished by coarse anglers who throw in pints of maggots in an attempt to draw the fish to them. The fish density is fairly low here and there is always somebody else fishing. I see the eyebrows raise…

We’re nearing the end of a very strange year but maybe there’s change in the air? On the same day that a defeated Trump buries his head in the sand of one of the bunkers at his exclusive golf club, there is news of a potential Covid vaccine. World changing news aside, the big question…