Fishing UK Specialist Angler & Angling Writer, Andrew Kennedy | Pike Perch Barbel Carp Lure Coarse British angler writing about fishing and specialist angling

FishingMagic.com has been through a few redesigns which have affected how the articles, reviews & catch reports I wrote for them – mostly between 2011 & 2013 – have been displayed.  What has never changed is the quality and variety of writing on the site; it’s a great resource for angling-related news, instruction and entertaining stories. The site has gone through another revamp over recent months and I thought the images on the content I wrote for them had vanished forever, but after checking again recently the content is reappearing!  So if you have an interest in reading the reviews, articles & catch reports I wrote for the online angling magazine, FishingMagic, you still can at the following links:  www.fishingmagic.com/?s=andrew+kennedy or www.just-fish.co.uk/fishingmagic

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It’s a now a month since the rivers closed and I’m just getting around to typing up my ‘end of season round-up’ post.  I don’t think I’ve fully grasped the concept of a blog!  Well, better late than never, I suppose… Somehow I’ve managed to once again have a poor end to the season.  What’s made this one different to previous seasons is that it followed a poor middle of the season and a disappointing start to the season too!Okay, so I haven’t had as many hours on the bank since November as I wanted, but the efforts I did make had brought me “0” fish on the bank since November too!  A few evening sessions fishing for zander, a few of the same after barbel (in seemingly ideal conditions, too) and an all-day chub session all resulted in a single half-hearted bite and no fish hooked or landed. In February I escaped the horrendous floods by heading to a canal which manages to remain clear no matter what the conditions.  It was a slow day during which I fished static deadbaits, wobbled deadbaits and lures, which all generated very little interest.  Finally a float-legered sardine I’d cast tight to a …

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I’m never going to fish that place! I decided a few weeks ago that after putting off the idea for a few years – for various reasons:  (“It’s not real pike fishing”… “It’s far too easy to catch a huge pike on there”… “Results will drop off before I get there, like at Llandegfedd, Blithfield”… “I don’t want to join the rat race in the fight for tickets and then rejoin it in the fight for best spots”, etc.)  – I would finally this year try for some winter tickets to pike fish at Chew Valley Lake. I love fishing rivers, drains and canals for pike.  The looks and fight of a double-figure river pike are hard to beat, but occasionally I get the urge to seek out larger fish.  Visits to reservoirs in the past haven’t been too productive for me, but I have the tackle and – thanks to these previous trips – a bit of experience of reservoir fishing.  So what if reservoirs are man-made?  The pike in these venues are as wild as any from a river.  They may have an easy, protein-rich food source of naive stocked trout, but this all adds to the challenge …

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