Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

A final Tench session before the rivers reopen, the close season seems to get longer each year. A slow and difficult day resulting in a bra...

A short evening session with our lad, one rod, a net and some dog biscuits results in over 40lb of Carp on the bank. First blood to me with...

A peaceful corner of Manor lake which was like an aquarium. Plenty of voluntary visitors to the margins including a brace of Pike, several ...

A tough day spent battling more with weed than fish. A succession of hook pulls and lost fish in the weed made for a frustrating morning. Ho...

It is supposed to be spring with nice warm days and gentle breezes. Instead we get strong northerly gusts and a cold, shivering angler, desp...

Trying to find a swim to fish on a bank holiday weekend was a lot harder than I thought. The intention was to try for Tench at Linear but th...

A red letter day at Hardwick lake on the Linear complex. This collection of day ticket and syndicate lakes was voted the best in the countr...

A beautiful sunny day at last after the longest winter ever. Stubb's pool lost a lot of fish in the great flood of 2007 but there are st...

Sometimes you have to kiss a lot of frogs until you get a prince but my brother took it a little too literally. Early afternoon and his floa...

I do not think this aided the fishing in any way. An hour into my weekly fishing session and the owner of the pond turns on the pump and...

A beautiful early spring day spent beside Hardwick lake at the Linear complex. The temperature is beginning to rise now, almost to T-shirt ...

At last some settled warmer weather, just as the season closes! Time to move on to the stillwaters and Roach to begin with. A day at Willo...

The Avon with an extra few feet of coloured water in it. Perfect Barbel conditions you might be saying, but try as I might I could not te...

Only a mad man would have gone Barbel fishing in these conditions. Having checked the forecast all week it was never going to be easy. T...

The river Wye looked in perfect condition and the weather was chilly but bearable. It did not matter what or where I tried though, an...

Barbel The Warwickshire Avon was in perfect trim, about a foot higher than normal following a week of warmer weather. It just screamed Barb...

Do not be misled by this sunny, warm looking photo. A northerly wind made for a pretty uncomfortable session chasing Pike. This backwater o...

A sharp ground frost, the sun trying to break through the early morning mist, it had all the feel of a Pike session, only without the Pike....

January 12th. What a week, my second child, my first son, Max is born on the 4th January at 2.15pm and the worst snow for more than two dec...