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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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River Lambourn

3.11.21 - River Lambourn

My gardening work is slowing down now, so I got to squeeze a 2-hour sesh in this afternoon. After so much rain recently, I'm surprised to see the water low, so low that I don't even bother with the very shallow first park-bench swim. At the first spot with more than a foot of depth, get a 4 ounce brownie as an angler stops to say he's caught 30 today, having been fishing the stretch for 5 hours. Hmm, hope he's left me some. At the bridge, catch the smallest trout I have ever seen, I thought it w
River Lambourn

18.10.21 - River Lambourn

A Monday off, and squeezed in a couple of hours fishing, just as the rain started. Fished several swims, loose feeding with red maggots and trotting a 4AAA loafer down the shallow glides. Had a torpedo-shaped 1lb 6 brownie early on, but nothing more. Had a handful of bites that didn't connect for more than a second, and something snatch at one of the six minnows I snagged. Apart from being jeered by some schoolgirls, and a guy insisting that anything good had been caught and eaten by, lets say,
River Lambourn

16.09.21 - River Lambourn

An opportunity for a couple of hours early morning fishing sent me to the Lambourn for the first time since last winter. The banks weren't as overgrown as I'd feared, with most winter swims fishable, although the water was pretty shallow in most places. Trotting with the centrepin is always great fun. I fished four swims, the first soon picking up a 4-ounce brownie. It was at the third and favourite swim, that apart from 11 minnows, I had my second bite. It was a good take and I could see a rath
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