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

I’ve now posted more than 40 articles to my fishing website, www.just-fish.co.uk over the past six years!  This I find quite hard to believe, but this blog seems to have added to the popularity of my website, so as long as people keep reading ’em, I’ll keep writing ’em! Now, because I may be a little short of fishing trips to write about in the near future (though I have a fly fishing trip to Errwood Reservoir at Buxton in the pipeline), I thought it would be interesting to check through Google Analytics, to see which of my articles have proven to be the most popular over the past year. The results were quite surprising.  My most popular article over the past 12 months, with over 6,500 views, is the one I wrote a few years ago about fishing the “Lift Method” for carp & tench. “Lift Method” Rig Diagram from https://www.just-fish.co.uk Top 20 Countdown Okay, pop-pickers, here is the full run-down of the top 20 of my fishing articles, viewed over the last 12 months on www.just-fish.co.uk voted for by you, the angling public!  …Nod ‘arf! Fishing the Lift Method for Carp & TenchSturgeon Fishing on the Fraser River, BC, …

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Just a quick one, but I’ve literally just found out that a specialist angler has caught Britain’s first authenticated 6lb+ perch and set a new British record weight of 6lb 2oz. I don’t know the guy, and I’ve never fished the venue, but this is a landmark fish and from how the article reads, the captor applied real specialist tactics to land this fish, so kudos.  Well done that man. The full Angling Times article is here: [Link no longer exists]

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For the first two or three years of this millennium I generally experienced some great fishing towards the back-end of the season.  For some reason, as my river experience has grown each year, my “final session” captures have dwindled.  For the last 4 or 5 “final sessions” I have targetted perch and failed to catch anything of merit.  I was all set for my final session of the 2010/11 season and after my success piking the previous week, I decided to have a final blow-out session piking, back on the Dove.  With my confidence buoyed by my recent capture, I thought I’d try some different stretches to search out new swims for fishing in the future.  On my way from the freezer after grabbing some pike baits, I spotted my lobworm sack and – despite my previous “last session” experiences with perch – couldn’t resist taking them along in case there was a rare, big Dove stripey out there with my name on it. The original “final” session… I arrived at the first new stretch before dawn and had a walk to find a few features before grabbing my gear.  The wind was absolutely horrendous and I can’t think of a …

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