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

This is another quick post from an internet café.  I’m on holiday, you see, until tomorrow, so burglars you’ve got one last chance! The house is actually the reason for both my blog-slackness and my wider angling-slackness for almost the entirity of the river closed season and beyond.  I finally took the plunge and bought my first place with my girlfriend, Jen. Needless to say, there was a lot more to the whole process than I’d anticipated… Still, I’ve finally started to get a few sessions in, which I’m pleased to say have yielded very few blanks. So far I’ve had barbel to around 9lb off the rivers and a good few carp off the surface on some local lakes too. I also took my 13 year-old cousin Fraser for his first-ever river session a week or so ago where, under my guidance, he managed to land a clonking new PB chub of 4lb 5oz on simple groundbait feeder techniques. Not a bad first river fish at all; I reckon I was 19 before I’d caught a chub of that size. The only thing was the pesky chub was very lively on the bank and every time I pressed the …

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“Do you remember that fishing blog we used to read?  It was alright, you know; nowt special but he could waffle…” “Yeah, I know the one, but he’s been a bit quiet of late…” Admittedly, this blog has started to gather cobwebs in recent months, but I’m back with a bit of news and plenty of waffle as usual. I’m in an internet café at the moment (yes they still exist!), so time is short, but I have plenty to write about as soon as I’m back at my own PC. However, I thought this news was too good to hold back, so I’m sharing it now. I’ve agreed to become a regular contributor of articles to Europe’s largest angling website, https://www.fishingmagic.com/! So far I’ve only written an introductory piece, which went live this week.  You can read it (and, if you’re an FM forum member, post your comments) at Andrew Kennedy’s Intro on www.fishingmagic.com Big thanks go out to Will Barnard and Ian Welch for having a bit of faith in me; I won’t let you down fellas! More from me soon, but for now, please head over to Fishing Magic and take a look at my intro, which details my life …

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This post has been an awful long time coming, but finally – on a train on my way to a stag weekend in Liverpool – I’ve found time to patch together my account of a terrific day I had, doing something I do too little of these days; fly fishing. I received an email from Secretary of Errwood Fly Fishing Club, Ian Gould, offering the chance of “smashing your trout PB on fly gear”, if I joined him in the Spring for a day on the club’s venue, Errwood Reservoir. After taking a quick look on their website – www.effc.co.uk – at the quality of the scenery and the fishing on offer in the hills above Buxton in Derbyshire’s Peak District, I could not resist a visit! Ian emailed me again towards the end of March, informing me that the season had kicked off well, with some very large fish coming out, so I got down there as soon as I could. The week previous, Ian – who I believe still holds the venue record with a trout of over 14lb – had caught 3 double-figure trout the week prior to my visit. It turned out that I managed to pick the hottest, sunniest April day I …

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