A Year in the Making
“Cukoo, cukoo” bleeps my phone, alerting me to a text. It’s from Matt, “Wanna go fishing tomorrow?” I check the diary and text back, “It’s a goer!” “Fekinel!!!” is his near instantanious reply. For a variety of reasons I have been repeatedly unable to take Matt up on his previous offers of fishing from […]
Late night news
I wake abruptly from a strange dream where I am fishing on the rocks with Si Lewis and Arsene Wenger casting huge paddle tail lures the size of spaniels. We didn’t catch. I look at my phone to check the time, its 2am. I notice I had a text from Si an hour ago. It […]
Naming my marks
To those that fish with me who have seen the title and are now having palpitations, please calm down! I am not about to name our marks, just give a light-hearted account of how some of our favourite marks acquired their names. It not one of our regular short(ish) and sweet blogs posts, but is […]
Big January Bass on Lures: An Audio Blog
A few days ago Julian Fox and myself ventured out on to a coloured stirred up sea at first light. We had travelled to the coast with our usual high expectation, yet the sight of the brown water with barely a foot of visibility appeared to have left us with little chance of a small […]
Getting it right or getting it wrong?
When it comes to big bass it never ceases to amaze me how many different ways I can find to screw up. I’d claim this is due to there being so many links in the bass fishing chain making it inevitable a factor beyond my control sometimes leads to disaster. A better explanation however might […]