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
June 7, 2010 
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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
June 7, 2010 0 Comments
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 readingBeach recon from Minnis Bay to Reculver Castle
May 31, 2010 0 Comments
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. […]
Continue readingPike Fly Fishing on the RMC
May 16, 2010 0 Comments
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
May 11, 2010 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue readingHayling Island
May 11, 2010 0 Comments
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 […]
Continue readingSpinning near Chatham
May 11, 2010 0 Comments
I headed out to catch what I thought was a 5PM high ide. Turns out it wasa 7PM high. This gave me some time to have a recky around the area to let the water in. I headed around the bay at Motney hill towards the sewerage works. The water didn’t look too deep and […]
Continue readingMotney Hill
May 4, 2010 0 Comments
>After heading out over the bank holiday weekend to a place called Motney Hill, near Chatham, and being blown all over the place, and not in a good way, I didn’t manage to do any fishing. This was mostly due to 20+ mph head winds. I did mange to scout 2 areas pointed out to […]
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