Now the season’s finished I’m camped out on our ‘Rouge’ lake for a couple of weeks, fishing as much as possible in between work and uni. Got started last night with this lovely 16lb 4oz Mirror.
(Finally got a decent pic, after a few…ahem…technical difficulties with the new camera)
Caught at sunset on Essential baits Shellfish B5, […]
Rest easy, this is not another abandoned blog! However with work commitments I’ve found little time to update the site with my exploits, but here’s my attempt to recap the past 6 weeks or so…
I had been waiting for the chance to fish Rouge for a couple of months, since around about the time it became clear that it wasn’t easy water. Watching anglers struggle to find the monsters that swim within the 4.5 acres really got my juices flowing. Whereas i had once regarded this water as a […]
My reliable car, ‘The Tub’, has been suffering of late and was due to go into the garage on Wednesday night. This left me without transport for Thursday morning, so being the dedicated professional that I am, I offered to camp out at the lakes just so that i could work a full day on […]
After a busy week, Saturday finally came, and with it came my chance to escape out onto the banks and ponder the passage of time. I’d been content with day sessions for the past few weeks, but the urge to get out and spend a night by the water was almost overpowering. However, this in […]
Cabin fever is a terrible thing, and after 6 days of incessant rain it would be fair to say i was suffering from a lack of time on the bank. So when the forecast for Sunday showed high temperatures and a break in the rain i mentally pencilled a session in. I’m not ashamed to […]
Despite my best intentions to get out into the big French wilderness and bag some uncaught monsters, I’ve been so busy with work that my fishing is being limited to the odd session on our own lakes down here. Whilst I love the lakes, I’m wary of fishing them; somehow being involved in a fishery […]
With all the work I’ve been doing down at the lakes, it’s necessary to keep a fire burning to dispose of all the small branches and unusable wood. Of course, as we all know it’s dangerous to leave a fire unattended so when I hauled my aching legs from the silt on Thursday afternoon I […]
After a week of frozen water, things looked great on Friday evening as I left the lake after a day’s work. The water had unfrozen, temperatures were high and I was sure the fish would be anxious to get on the feed.
However, waking on Saturday morning I heard an unfamiliar and unwelcome howling from outside: […]
It was a relief to be back on the bank, albeit this was a different bank, in a different country and an entirely different proposition. Having arrived in France on Monday evening to take up my new role as manager of Exclusive Angling Holidays, I was finally, 5 days later, able to put the weeks […]
