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Owls Castle Farm


I headed to Owls Castle Farm on Wednesday 7th July for a spot of Carping on the fly with dog biscuits. I arrived and parked up and chatted to the grounds man and a couple fishing in the bottom lake. They said there were plenty offish moving so i headed back quickly to set up […]

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Zander at Grafham Resevoir


Myself and Tony headed to Grafham Resevoir at about 05:30 and arrived at about 7:30-8 and met up with Guy Eldridge and Son. We had a quick breakfast and then set about getting boat tickets and getting out on the water. We paired up, me with Tony and, Guy and son. We headed out to […]

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Pattenden Lane


I headed over to Pattenden Lake with Tony with the aim to use dog biscuits to catch top feeding carp. The method being to get them in a competitive state and then chuck in the fly and then BAM, one on the line. Well we started well, but then started to individually target the fish. […]

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Beltinge Beach


I headed out on a slightly windy day. Turned out the wind was an Easterly which meant it would be hitting me from the left. I headed to the cliffs at high tide and found casting quite hard due to the cross wind and wasn’t sure of the underwater terrain. I worked along the waters […]

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Beltinge Beach – Spinning Sucess


I headed down to Beltinge Beach again in front of the cliffs. This time I headed with Tony to give him his first fly session for bass. We arrived at the car park in a 25+ degree day before 12. We set up spinning and fly rods and headed along the beach. We got to […]

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Beach recon from Minnis Bay to Reculver Castle


Having been out on a wlk from Minnis Bay to Reculver allowed me to have a low tide recky of the shore. The whole beach is sandy and flat from teh botton of the sones at the foot of the sea wall. The groins at the Minnis end are, all bar one, wooden or concrete. […]

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Pike Fly Fishing on the RMC


I finally managed to meet Tony, another PFFA member, after ages of schedules not working out. I met up with him at about 6:30 on Saturday 15th May. We then drove to a section of the RMC he had tried previously and caught 2 pike of 12lbs and 14lbs. After parking up and setting up […]

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Hayling Island


I headed back to Hayling Island Langstone car park for about 08:30. I fished all along the channel and back around the beach towards the golf club. The tide was going out so I tried a few areas where I though the fish my hold up. It was very cold so I figured the fish […]

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Hayling Island


Having headed home for Dad’s birthday I headed to Hayling Island and parked up next to the golf course and headed down to the beach. We wandered along for a while and cast out 5-6 times in each breakwater. We chatted to another spinner and he hadn’t had anything in 2 hours. So we packed […]

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