Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

The insect life is all emerging showing us that summer is on it's way and the fish will soon be spawning and my opportunity for a ten po...

About six years ago I fished Twyford puddle and landed a couple of stunning Crucian Carp. I did not weigh them at the time and I have not ca...

I never forget my camera when I go fishing. Sod's law states that the only time I do it was going to be a red letter session with a pb t...

I confess that Eels are not my favourite species but there is something different and therefore exciting about them and I enjoy the idea of ...

8lb 13oz My blog is getting a bit monotonous but I make no apologies for being determined to get the bigger Tench. I am desperate for a doub...

I took the whole family to Yorkshire to visit my mum and dad for a few days but still managed to get out on the bank for a session. With the...

Nothing too exciting to report but managed to fit in a short session at Coppice Pool this evening. As the weather was just about staying war...

This glorious spell of weather continues unabated so with a few hours late afternoon at my disposal I headed back to Stubb's Pool armed ...

I am continuing my Tench campaign for a couple of reasons, one is I know there are plenty of eights to be caught and a good possibility of a...

My gravel pit campaign continues and I managed to get a pass out for an over night session so headed for Linear in the hope that the Bream w...

A beautiful warm spring day was forecast so I headed back down to Linear to try and better last week's Tench. I managed to land four in ...

A session that took a lot of getting going but turned into an enjoyable days fishing. A very quiet, biteless morning without even a liner to...

Headed back to the same pool as last week in an attempt to make acquaintance with the bigger relatives of last weeks catch. This time I too...

A day spent tiddler bashing on a spectacular intimate fishery that is full of silver fish, and the odd Carp. It is reputed to hold some good...

There has been some debate in the fishing comic lately about Pike being the stupidest fish and today did them no favours. I decided to vent...