Last week I was catching loads of fish, the recent icy blast has really 'chilled' the fishing. On Wednesday, I fished the mid week open at Gold Valley, the weather was warm enough for January but the weather forecast was for strong winds with even stronger 'gusts'. Despite the forecast I was really looking forward to this match, Gold has...

Tuesday, I did a feature at Larford Lakes with Des, when we arrived the lakes were partly frozen and we did not know what to expect, the object of the feature was to demonstrate the finesse and feeding needed to catch shy feeding fish in cold water, and it was COLD, the feature should be out in the March issue...

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Todays match was the first back after the xmas break and I was 'guesting' for Bathampton AA, this 72 peg match was pegged from Darlington Wharf to out past the George, thats a lot of water for 72 pegs, but with so many boats moored you need a lot of towpath to get everyone in. I had drawn C10 which...

The New year started with a bang for the Bristol docks regulars, the Xmas match was good, but it fished even better for the new years day 'bash'. The match was fished at the Police Launch and Redcliffe Wharf, the water was a perfect colour after the recent period without any rain. Top rod again, was Pete Sivell, who caught...

The docks was in fine form for this years match, a hard frost in the morning did not put the fish off in the deep water, the water was a nice colour, not too clear and the recent rain had not put too much colour into the water. The recent thursday evening matches have been fishing quite well with most...

  83 anglers turned out for this match, there was no peg fee taken out and there was no pools, and everyone had to bring a raffle prize, with the proceeds from the raffle going to local charities. Everyone was full of the christmas spirit, some even turned out with red father christmas hats on, there was a few faces...

A dull grey windy peg 8 32 Coffin Dodgers fished this years match on Bridge Pool, its always well run and well supported and everyone gets a prize. The weather had really warmed up from the weekends frosts, the weather forecast was for strong south westerlies, light rain and 13 degrees. the water had cleared since my last visit...

When we left Bristol the temperature on the van was saying minus 7, all the way to Gold we were wondering if it was going to be frozen, I was glad I brought some bloodworm and joker, but I never had my ice breaker. As we got nearer to Gold the temperature gradually got warmer, by the time we arrived...