The fishing at the barrage has been dire lately, and I felt my angling was well and truly in a rut as a result fishing the same peg in the same way for days and weeks on end. Add to this the sweltering summer weather and my impending return to the UK in September, I […]
It’s been a bit of a lean spell in terms of time on the bank for me over the last coupe of months. In September i started a course at the local university to improve my French, and this has meant that any free time has been spent with my head in a dictionary and […]
As you will have no doubt noticed, things have been quiet on here recently, largely due to holidays and a general shift away from Carp fishing, in favour of a spot of course fishing. No harm done though, as now, after a break and a battery recharge, i’m well and truly back onto my […]
When faced with the long drive north into Normandy to collect bait for the coming season, my dislike for the driving was offset by the knowledge that i would be able to drop a line in the lake i was heading towards. The lake was Lakes Escapes ‘Lake PB’, and i knew that there was […]
They say there are no virgin waters in France. Well that might be true, but I’m happy to call a little lake i have gained access to ‘virgin’. I know it hasn’t been fished seriously in the last decade and has been stocked at least twice in the last 30 years. The current owner talks […]
