So I was really getting the LRF bug now and although it was just a few days to wait I spent them mentally planning how to attack picking up more species.

So the weekend finally came. My other half had a weekend planned with her friends leaving me and Owen with a stamped leave pass to hang out with the fishes all weekend.

I drove to Devon after work from Ash Vale on the Friday evening and amazingly the weather was improving all of the way. I was staying at my mum’s place on a sofabed so I dumped my bags said hi to everyone and put Owen to bed who was already there waiting for me.

“Mum, you mind if I pop out for a few hours?😀”.

Continue reading “Covering ground – Species Hunting Chapter 2”

This blog post is the first of 3 accounts I will be writing about the Species hunt Competition ran by Osborne and Cragg Tackle Shop in Plymouth. I hope you enjoy the read and come back for the future posts!

What a season so far! I caught 70cm bass from the shore in pitch black darkness.

I’ve caught fairly large trout 3-4lb on the fly for the first time, I caught a 5lb chub (my first) with free-lined bread in a narrow and shallow stream.

Continue reading “So I wanted to catch smaller fish??? Species Hunting – Chapter 1”

“The moon is trying to come out and that might just make a difference“.

About 5 minutes before the Savage Gear lure rod I was using folded over, my guide Marc Cowling had commented on the lunar activity.

Then as the clouds broke just long enough for the moon to light up the world around us, fish on. And oh what a fish she was. I felt was a tap on the tip of the rod, and then the vibration of the line stripping from the reel as the fish took off like a silver bullet.

On Friday night after months and months of correspondence I finally met up with Marc Cowling, ‘The South Devon Bass Guide’.

Continue reading “Light in the dark – The secret ingredient?”