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I started this blog in March 2021, having blanked in over half of my fifteen winter trips to various waters of Newbury Angling Association. The rivers, canals and lakes are fine, I'm just not very good at catching the fish in them. Oddly, i seemed to get a bit better for a while, but 2023 has undone all that. In July I moved to South Wales, not entirely for the weather, but to enforce a change in my fishing luck.

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Willows

10 & 11.9.21 - Willows

Two sessions spent in my favourite swim. With the temperature and air pressure having fallen, and the breeze and chance of rain up, I was hopeful the carp would be obliging. Largely they were. One popular consensus is that the carp shoal and swim round and round the island. This is borne out by the fish often coming in pulses of 15 minutes when the rod tip won't keep still, and more than taking the method feeder 'on the drop', before the rod goes back onto the rest. Then it quietens again and th
Bayleaf the Gardener

Bayleaf the Gardener in Willows

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Willows

16.04.21 - Willows

Well, my plan to fish Alders and get to know its contours and mysteries over the weeks ahead before the season resumes properly lasted about an hour. The frost I arrived in was driven off by a strengthening northerly wind and my uncomfortable biteless session came to an end when the bailiff arrived and told me of his p.b. mirror (26lb) and bream (11lb) in an hours session at adjacent Willows last week. At Willows I started on float while the temperature struggled to get up to potential carpin
Bayleaf the Gardener

Bayleaf the Gardener in Willows

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