Tim's Riparian Ramblings

22 February 2020 - Another windy weekend saw an afternoon trip to Ellerdine in pursuit of trout with Nick Fisher. Seven fish obliged in the...

15th February 2020 .      With a couple of hours free in the evening and the rivers too high to fish on the back of Storm Dennis, I headed t...

8 th Feb 2020     As we moved into February the Midlands’ rivers, whilst high, were finally out of the fields. W ith the weather cold and b...

11th Jan 2019       With the rivers in flood and stillwater-inhabiting coarse fish still cold and lethargic, a couple of opportunities to go...

  Dec 2019               When I started writing this blog I hadn’t quite anticipated how writing would influence another growing hobby of mi...

In the height of summer there's often no worse condition than bright sunshine. With fish increasingly wary of predators, and water low a...

Leaving the New Forest behind, my mind turned to my next trip, supposedly a visit to the Wye hoping it would give up its first double figure...

The third and final installment of our trip to the New Forest saw us make a visit to the chub fishing mecca that is Beat 2 at Throop Fishery...

October 2019 still, and day two of my trip down to the New Forest. With an unsuccessful few hours the night before at Winkton the warm atmos...

  October 2019. Ok, I know… I’m a long way behind! I must admit it's strange writing up articles from the pre-COVID era. It seems so muc...