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The Snag Is...
The Project that Eric and I are working on has proven difficultThe unending fluctuations in the weather since mid-December have made any likelihood of consistent sport ultra-slimIt's been a case of...
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Ice and a Slice
Dawn was sullen. Cold and unmoving in the crystalline shroudFingers burnt to metal, numbness pervading. Conductivity seeking to turn flesh to ice. Hard pellets of snow blistering the complexion like a...
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Luck in, Look out.
Kingfisher poised overheadA Long weekend.Long sessions and an unusually long drive.Predators were offering themselves in the mind of temptation.Lamprey, sprat & sardine were stocked with meat,...
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Another Back-end to Die from.
This back-end of the traditional coarse fishing season has been, like so many others, a time of luck and opportunity.One seeks to glean what one can from our rivers but dear old Jack Frost and John...
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A Reflective Surface
The fields rolling and falling though marsh to the rush-lined margins, bleached and wrung-out by winter.A consuming stillness save for the calling raven, finches and thrushes. Artificial yet real, but...
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Bloggers Challenge Run-in
Onset of April marks the start of the final month of the Bloggers Challenge 2017/18.One or two anglers have been able to put some good points on the scales since the New Year but most of us have...
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The angling winter has been peppered with blank sessions; the birding equivalent however punctuated by just the odd sparkling find - a garden brambling and two lesser redpoll just a couple of weeks...
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THE 2017-18 BLOGGER'S CHALLENGE CONCLUDES
At midnight on Monday the biennial Blogger's Challenge came to a close with the conclusion of the 2017/18 competition.Challengers had generally been seeking as many species, to as great a percentage of...
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So Now What?
The Challenge now behind us, the future unfurling like mist gently drifting across a meadow. No specific direction, nor apparent purpose.For me The Challenge has become such an engaging event that I am...
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In Search of Big Tench & the Future of the Species.
Did I say, "Ye Gods!"?Well, the world still has that "Ready Brek" glow about itWhile it's never on the tip of the tongue there were a couple of highlights in a twenty-five year match fishing period, of...
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IT'S LIKE A HEATWAVE!
The relentless sun, bleaching energy into and out of the humidity of life. Brittle stems and blond seed heads of various grasses surge consecutively yet as one in the breeze. Only physical breaks curb...
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Sensing Memorable Moments
There are those times in life when events exceed any prior hope. That are planned to be good but conclude in the exceptional, beyond words.'Problem is, I'm now committed to put into words an...
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Pursuing the Stream
Reading and researching every available article and note (there ain't much) to squeeze that extra drip from the fruit that is the tiny River Leam has helped, but not as much as one might prefer.It's...
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An Indication of Syndication
At the end of last term's Bloggers' Challenge a very prominent loose end was left wafting in the breezeThe end that was loose related to the next undertaking, the next challenge in fact. Whilst usually...
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Eric Weight, of Artificial Lite blog, and I worked on a project last winter and now is therefore the appropriate time to share itThis is our first foray of this nature and it has been a great challenge...
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Lead to the Canal
Experimentation had been intriguing but, perhaps, raised more questions than it resolved. The changing season had nurtured the urge to seek out that regular cold weather adversary, the roach, and not...
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If You Complain Nothing Happens!
The process of complaining is riddled with a lack of challenge. Degree of difficulty 1 out of 10. Zero being the good old, tried and tested, 'do nothing' optionIt is of no greater import therefore not...
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The Film - the Truth of the Matter
The feedback on the Big Canal Roach video has been very encouraging. So much so that we're about to set-out on the next escapade, but, before so doing, I must right a wrong.----The making of this...
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The Evolving Situation
The Bloggers' Syndicate stretch of the Upper Warwickshire Avon has transmogrified into a perfect meandering stream over the past monthNo longer the sluggish, eutrophic, apparently lifeless ditch. A...
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SEASON FINALE & SYNDICATE OPENINGS
A BACK END CHALLENGEDaylight gone, gales dropping, beta light wagging gently in the post-peak flow, as it had through the previous hour. The few items in use were pushed back into various pockets and...
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