Float, Flight and Flannel

It was never going to be warm...  SATURDAY Canals would be frozen, as would small lakes and with high water having run-off the loca...

The limitations to fishing on highly trafficked relatively shallow canals are obvious to those who have experienced the dubious pleasure but...

  Two weeks ago Pat delivered new licences for Parps and myself which enable us to wander further into the Leam valley in search of a ...

5am bathroom floor, Lepisma saccharina, Silverfish. An omen?   This past weekend, with the house to prepare for estate agents, it was to...

My back-end. Wednesday the mist quite literally descended on another coarse season, at least for this angler, and, as the greens begin ...

The last time I caught anything on bread on the canal was November 10th Admittedly the visits have been few and far between as the ...

"That tree is usually on the bank and next to it is a dished channel that all the fish will be in under these flood conditions"...

Having just visited Mick Newey's always entertaining Piscatorial Quagswagging (http://calamitymn.blogspot.co.uk) (where did you discover...

The big canal roach hunt is temporarily shelved with the North Oxford having relinquished it's usual strong colour to the invading co...

  The River Leam has a certain hold over me it has to be said. Not that I have, as yet, in around twenty sorties to its sometimes unco...