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2 can play the same game

1st cast same result,, hemp and hali monkey with an O on the hook

A Day With The Feedermaster

Yesterday I spent the day with old friend and top angler Nick Larkin, I was writing a feature for Anglers Mail magazine and Nick had to show us how to catch a few fish on his new invention the Feeda lead.

Fishing at Suffolk Water Park near Ipswich Nick promised a few fish and he didn't let us down, with a good net of silver fish and some good size Carp completed his session.

To find out how he did it and just what he caught you will have to buy the Anglers Mail

Good luck to everyone for the new English river season which opens in around an hours time

Just a few days to go

At midnight on the 15th June the close season comes to an end and proper fishing can start again


Found myself a nice little spot for a session or two and hopefully a Barbel will grace my net.

Happy Birthday

Busy weekend planned, tomorrow it's my birthday and hopefully I will get a few cards and presents
Tomorrow evening we are having a social with the Yorkshire Mafia including Fisky, Pip and a few others. I must not drink too much as I have to be at my best on Sunday
Sunday morning I am giving a talk and slide presentation at the barbel society show. They have asked me to talk about my trips to Holland and Germany
Monday we are having a Pancake party at number 20, it's a house warming come birthday party

Lady T has been catching some carp

We spent a pleasant afternoon catching some carp at our local pond
Fishing Sonubait oily floaters on the surface we had some good sport

Homeward Bound

We Broke camp a little after 9 and took a slow ride back to the Hook for the afternoon ferry, the Stena line ferry is far easier and much more comfortable than the painful trip down to Dover and back up into Holland.

We arrived back at Harwich before 20.00 and within minutes we were on the road home to Norwich.

For me the trip was important in that I value every minute that I am lucky enough to be fishing, but also this time I had lots of new people to meet for the first time, Tjitskes friends and family and to be honest I was a little apprehensive, but I need not have been, each and every one of them made me feel most welcome.

I would like to make a special mention for Tjitske the most important person in my life not only my partner but also my best friend and also a great person to spend my life with.

Thanks T for just being yourself and making me very happy

I love you

Sadly the last day

Another Early start and a planned meeting with Frank and Riny to fish on the Waal but further downstream than I had fished before, Frank took me to one of his favoured spots, with a chance to fish from the beach rather than a krib, which made a nice change.

Franks a great angler and thinks hard about his fishing and like a lot of us would be fishing every day if he could. Proof is in results and it didn't take long for Frank to find a barbel.

Riny had baked us another apple cake after I had managed to eat most of the one from the evening before, washed down with loads of coffee, it went down well.

Our great friend Cees paid us a visit during the day and it was good for us to catch up with him and as always the chat turned to fishing and although Frank and Cees had not met before it didn't take long for them to become acquainted.

Sadly the day went all too quickly, Franks early barbel was the only whicker of the day, a few bream and winde put in an appearance but as for the whole trip the barbel were hard to find.

But as the sun set on another great trip we can again take home a head and heart full of memories and look forward to September when we will again meet up with friends and attempt to catch some Dutch and German Barbel