River Irfon

The Club Grayling fishing trip to Wales on 25 October was attended by Keith Allison; Bob Ayres; Geoff Darby; John Goldie; Martin James; John Poote and Bob Sharp. The Hotel Cammarch, our base has three miles of fishing rights on the River Irfon, split into three beats, upper middle and lower. It is a tributary of the River Wye. For those of us who had limited their fishing to the manicured Chalk streams  of the south would find a different type of river – a freestone river.We had arranged [...]

November 9th, 2021|

Farmoor 2

Keith Allison and John Poote: November 4th 2021Although we had just lost an hour due to the ending of British Summer time John had heard Farmoor 2 was restocked 4 days previously. The water temperature now being 14 degrees which meant the water was warmer than the 8 degrees ambient air temperature. However it was cold enough for restocking. The wind direction was a north easterly approx 12mph, cloudy in the morning  and sunny spells.in the afternoon.We started with a fast glass and a Cortland blue slow intermediate. We [...]

November 8th, 2021|

Grafham Shrimp – Keith Allison

13th October 2021It’s that time of year again at Grafham, when I dug out all those shrimp patterns tied during lockdown, took a floating line a good pair of waders and headed off to do a bit of bank fishing.It was a perfect morning , the only slight disadvantage was the westerly wind but at 8 mph this was manageable whilst fishing off my favourite bank G marker near G buoy. Approaching the water with a 15 foot leader, a  Tequila FAB on the point and to start [...]

October 19th, 2021|

Keith Allison CARPE DIEM!

5th September 2021Having had a kind invitation from a GAIA instructor friend Paul Hughes to have a day fishing for carp on a lake near Saffron Walden with other GAIA instructors , I jumped at the chance as it has been on my ‘to do ‘ list since I retired. 

The weather was unusually warm for this month with bright sunshine and 25 degrees and no breeze.I was told to take a bag of Pedigree biscuit mix. Apparently this gets the carp up to the surface . It certainly worked [...]

September 8th, 2021|

Bob Sharpe – Ravensthorpe and Avon

RAVENSTHORPE – 9 April 2021This was Bob Ayres and my first fishing outing of the year, along with friends Phill and Andy. Thankfully we all decided to avoid an early start and arrived around 09.00 to find only four boats already on the water and a light breeze blowing towards the Dam.Encouraged by a modest midge hatch, we anchored about 70 m from the far bank and 200m from the dam. Our set up, a long leader and three black buzzers and Bob A, a blob and buzzers. On [...]

June 28th, 2021|

Club BBQ at Farmoor

June 10th, 2021|

Fishing Adventures with Bob Sharp

An IntroductionDuring the gloom of the last year’s lockdown, I set out to rationalise my fishing kit. The first job was the 15 or so fly boxes I had dotted around my work room, the second was to get shot of some of the stuff I had accumulated over the years and superseded with new kit and the third a resolution to be tidier and not hoard what Lyn referred to as junk, and, only buy new stuff that was essential!      For many of us, fishing kit [...]

April 21st, 2021|

Two Bobs’ Worth at Ravensthorpe

Bob Sharp and Bob Ayers 9 April 2021

This was Bob Ayres and my first fishing outing of the year, along with friends Phill and Andy. Thankfully we all decided to avoid an early start and arrived around 09.00 to find only four boats already on the water and a light breeze blowing towards the Dam.Encouraged by a modest midge hatch, we anchored about 70 m from the far bank and 200m from the dam. Our set up, a long leader and three black buzzers and Bob A, a blob [...]

April 15th, 2021|

CFT&FFC at Farmoor 2 – Keith Allison

March 29 2021Keith Allison and John Poote – John Goldie and Peter Aldridge

At long last we were allowed to get on the water and boat fish. John P had fished off the bank a couple of times earlier in March. He had to cast a long line to cover any fish and had caught one or two. However boat fishing will give an advantage to get over the fish.The weather was kind with a S Westerly approx 14mph, cloudy in the morning and sunny spells.in the afternoon.The house martins [...]

April 2nd, 2021|

Mark Robson at Rib Valley

Rib Valley fishing lakes – Hertfordshire 27 Dec ember 2020After planning to meet up with an old friend at lunchtime I realised there was an opportunity to sneak in a mornings fishing at Rib Valley, only a few miles away. It would also be a chance  to give the latest acquisition, a switch rod, its first outing.It was the morning after storm Bella and the forecast wasn’t great. It was slightly disconcerting that as I arrived 2 other fishermen were packing up to go, declaring the water to be [...]

January 1st, 2021|