I’ve managed to complete the How Much Bait? article and it is now uploaded. Don’t forget to leave any comments if you have your own particular views.
Can’t believe that it was snowing here again yesterday and it still carpets the ground as I type!
I did manage to get down to the river for a recce [...]
Well it’s a lot easier to ask how long is a piece of string!
Barbel when they are hungry can get through a lot of food, when they are not so peckish then very little is needed, so sometimes a relatively large amount is not enough to keep them happy and at other times a tiny [...]
Talk about Every Picture Tells a Story, these photo’s could surely tell dozens.
My old mate Dave Collins ( Far Right above) has just sent these to me and I’ve spoken to Fred and he reckons we’re talking early eighties.
Now the thing is, are you one of the happy band of ABE brothers in these pictures [...]
Just to get you in the mood if you’re coming along to the Barbel Society Hertfordshire meeting, I’m uploading an article which I wrote for the Barbel Fisher magazine five years ago.
It takes the form of a bankside interview with my great pal Fred Crouch. It’s a long feature, nearly eight thousand words , so [...]
It’s a wonderful summer’s morning and I’m here on the banks of the River Kennet in Royal Berkshire with my great friend Mr Barbel himself, Fred Crouch. It’s the first time we’ve been on the riverbank together for some while and I’m really looking forward to it, time in the company of Fred is time [...]
This winter is certainly getting me down now. If you had said to me before Christmas that we would be here now in the middle of February having had just the one real window of opportunity to catch a barbel , well, I wouldn’t have believed you. Cabin Fever, more like house arrest at the [...]
