Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

The river looked in tip top condition, just fining down after a well needed flush through of rain and when I pulled into Barton car park ...

An evening session hoping for Eels but lobworms have a universal appeal to all species so with every twitch of the quivertip you have no ide...

An early morning session that blew hot and cold and we can probably blame it on this regular visitor to the swim! We did manage a few fish ...

A successful overnight session on the Avon for both me and our lad with a total of five fish caught, all different species! I was fishing ma...

I tend not to use particles for my Barbel fishing as they not discerning and any species will take them. However because the river is so low...

Firstly I apologise but I wanted to show the reason we made a 7 hour round trip to the Essex coast and back. This 48lb Tope was the bigges...

An after work short evening session down by Wick weir chasing predators with dead baits. Small Roach are a universal bait and could result i...

The title and aim of the session were both Barbel but the Chub were a lot more obliging. Fun at first but becoming a nuisance. Following a...

A first fly fishing trip for over twenty years to the Lenches lakes. Accompanied by Uncle Ken a breezy day made for difficult casting condit...

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...