I headed to the lake on a fairly warm afternoon. The carp weren’t showing very much but I managed to get my corner and started baiting with dog biscuits. Nothing much showed but eventually carp moved in. I cast at them but nothing took the fly or got near it. Then the ducks moved in […]
Continue readingOwls Castle Farm
I headed out to Lamberhurst to have another crack at the surface feeding carp in the bottom lake. I arrived and the space I wanted was free. I started to fish at 10AM on the dot and didn’t have to wait long for the first fish. I hooked into a slightly sluggish 3lb Mirror at 10:10 which […]
Continue readingPattenden, First Double Figure Fish
I headed to Pattenden even though there was pretty high winds. I thought there should be enough cover to fish and I was right. The only thing was there was nit much action on the surface. I tried to get the fish to an area but only one turned up just after I arrived. I […]
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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 […]
Continue readingZander 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 […]
Continue readingPattenden 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. […]
Continue readingBeltinge 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 […]
Continue readingBeltinge 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 […]
Continue readingPike 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 […]
Continue readingHayling 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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August 11, 2010 