Another poor Spanish trip cut short by weather. I signed off last month with my planned trip to Johnsons being cancelled due to weather and the change of plan saw me catching a few good Barbel to finish a month of mixed results.

Long drives with mixed results. I signed of last month with a long drive home from the River Mersey in Stockport after not completing my mission of a new river double, plans were hatched for September but work and the weather changed that.

Long drives with mixed results. I signed off last month with England experiencing the best summer we’ve had in years, the rivers very low and clear and my first visit to Johnsons, a place I was planning to visit again in August.

I signed off last month with mixed emotions following the passing of a good friend and landing a big summer Barbel, July looked like being a difficult month as the temperatures were so high…

A real mixed bag. Well I signed of last month after emptying Fields End fishery of Crucians on a simple but very effective method and taking the plunge to join Johnsons.

Crucian Heaven. Well I signed off last month after my worst trip to Spain in 18 years following a terrible winter and spring, so things could only improve…

My awful winter and spring continues… So I signed off last month after finishing the show season promoting CatMaster Tours at the Big One in Farnborough and was looking forward to my planned spring Tench and Carp fishing…

The end of a tricky winter. So I signed of last month when we arrived back in England and it was freezing…

I finished last month’s piece with a funny sorry of a lost fish after playing it for 2 hours and 6 minutes, looking back it still makes me chuckle thinking about it, but if it was a huge English Barbel of awesome proportions I would have been devastated…

Frosty England and a trip to Thailand. With the rivers being trashed from all the snow melt I went Perching searching for the ever elusive “four”. It was cloudy with a northerly wind making it feel much colder than 7 degrees.

More pain in Europe and a Xmas Day double. So how did the rest of the trip go? We were struggling and running out of ideas and I’ll cover the rest in my December blog is how I left things last month.

A mixed bag of a month. I had two nights to fish and really fancied the Derwent despite the roadworks and stating I wouldn’t go back this season.

So how did the last 24 hours go? That’s where I finished last month, on the Trent at Sutton half way through my second night with one loss, an Eel and loads of Bream.

Two new sections of the Trent and blanking on the Ouse. I had three nights from 31 Aug so headed up the M1 with a loose plan to fish two or three different rivers over the three nights starting on the Trent at Long Eaton.

Biggest of the season and the ABF Challenge. What a funny or should I say normal English summer, we’d had another week of warm unsettled weather with lots of rain.

Barbel and blanking for Perch. I drove up the M1 late afternoon arriving in the carpark to find it empty which immediately lifted my spirits.

Since coming back from Spain work had taken over again and I’d not had time to go fishing, the new work pattern was impacting on my fishing but I was hoping the new season would see things improve.

I’d finished last month’s piece at the half way point of my Spring Carping trip after having landed a 50-02 Common on the last day of the April and really hoped the second half would be as good.

The biggest two shows were later this year with the first one being the Northern Angling Show. Colin was in Spain with the Catfish season already in full swing so my lovely lady Julie came along to help with the shows.

I’d taken the day of work to go to the Trent and rang Ky the bailiff to check the state of the river, he laughed and said not to bother as the weir had disappeared as the river was so high…