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Thursday 27 June 2019

2019 - June 26th , Natural soar at Loughborough

Mick and i purchased the Loughborough fishing book again and decided to fish the natural soar as recent rains had certainly freshened the water.
Our pegs were a good 7-8 foot deep and very little snagging the bottom. I attacked the peg with stick float and waggler but mostly and very pleasurably using the stick . Bait on the day was a maggot attack but also set my stall out for the tare and hemp .
A right mixture of fish was caught ; Bleak , Dacelettes , Chublettes , Gudgeon , Roach and Perch and one Barbel . Used a pint of hemp and two pints of maggots for a really enjoyable day , i reckon i could have doubled the weight on the pole as holding back was made difficult with a downstream gusty wind .




Mick next peg down took his share of Perch as usual


Safe platform


Good 10-11lb



Huge Barbel ..........in years to come





Satisfying fishing on a moving float day


Monday 24 June 2019

2019 - Local Greenhill AC water at Ashpole spinney , Cosby , South Leicestershire

Even though weed is an ongoing problem with most waters and none more than true with our local waters myself and Mick Carr decided to visit the water for an extraction of the silver finest , how did we fair ?






Mick collected heaviest fish of the day plus biggest Roach of the day - all fish were stamp class























The Tench was hell of a scrap



No casualties - they all went back



Great day of float gozunda !


Great bag of Ide and dog roach plus a load of Perch



2019 - Ireland June 3-10th , Guiness with Hybrids on acid

Trip was cancelled last year due to Mick's motorbike accident and my moving house so we plumbed for a June trip , right or wrong ? Our destination was the usual at Ballyconnell with Francis and Pauline at the Anglers rest ..............what could go wrong ?


Go wrong , well , travelled 5 miles from Whetstone to the beginning of the M1 and a temperature situation arose ? Just had the motor serviced but the Heater Matrix pipe system was not in a good state so water (4.5 litre ) was lost !  Service station and AA arrived and a prognosis of making sure there was water in the system was the order of the day for the rest of the journey. 



We travelled onwards up North and stopped of at llandudno for breakfast as normal , this time we found a different place that was just the best . THE RABBIT HOLE between the railway station and town centre, a lovely clean place with character and the best bacon and sausage in fact i would say the best breakfast in town . Put this on your wish list when passing through .









           Suitably refreshed and nourished we carried on to Holyhead and first in the queue , the way we like it !




The rain , again made an appearance and along with the Biker lads we were first to get onboard 



Onboard , a front seat view was found ready for more refreshment and nourishment




Guiness ............we are on our way


 Dublin in next to no time - and first to go down the ramp , was this to be the perfect fishing holiday ?



After a few drinks on arrival at Ballyconnell we retired only to have breakfast next morning with the Master ofAngling , The myth , The Legend which is  Francis McGoldrick
 Also there was Karl Woodhouse


Michael with the breakfast


That night it was first of the evening meal


The night life at the bar



Yield ........just love the Irish road signs , another one called Calming.


Most nights the nightcap was a Baileys or Irish coffee




On the Tuesday we made the trip over the border to massive great friend David Herron who had pre-baited his local lake for weeks in readiness for our arrival. (Lake across the road from his farm house)













Get in there , bream heaven



All down to this Northern Irish gentleman David Herron


That night back in the bar



Because of all the rain quality fishing was at a premium , this is the Woodford river about a metre up



Next day we went Brackley on the Beach section





Not much to show for the days efforts

Same for me , i've had better days









Last day was Killykeen , great favourite of mine however previous days people have been blanking !?

My box is actually on the wall and the water was at least 3 feet up over normal





Mick took position closest to the bridge


Car to the peg - it does not get much better !


Great day , bites all day , Mick could not shake the Perch off but took a hefty weight otherwise


I locked horns with this crazy Hybrids just the way i like it






Probably 15 hybrids and 30 plus stamp roach ......... perfect last day






Last night and the crazy crew were in for a session .......omg could they not drink !



Mad as a box of badgers !


Next day home and coming into Holyhead