Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

A misty sunrise greeted me as I made my way across the field at Barton, on the way to the weir peg where I felt I had unfinished business du...

Badsey Brook Take 1: My brother and I started out the day on the Avon at Barton. We had just nicely got settled in, started catching a fe...

The weather forecast at the start of this week did not look promising. There were hurricanesque winds forecast for every single day along th...

I headed down to the Barton stretch of the Avon this morning for a short session chasing Barbel. Started rolling meat down the run and after...

A fairly uneventful session yesterday taking a Barbel first cast and a Chub about an hour later and nothing else happened. Managed to get so...

11 foot of carbon feeder rod is probably not the most obvious choice of weapon for fending off a herd of inquisitive Bullocks but Steve thou...

Avon sunset All good things must come to an end and my recent run of success did just that. The last two weeks have been a real battle...

The first of two shark trips I have booked in this year. I hope the second one is more productive than this one. Not one single beast landed...

My last Freshwater session for a couple of weeks (shark trip) and no surprise, I went Barbelling. Similar result as last week I had eight Ba...

Another summers day spent chasing Barbel on the Warwickshire Avon. Today was a real red letter day as I landed eight Barbel and a solitary C...

It may be making my blog posts monotonous but I don't care, I am completely addicted to rolling meat down fast swims for Barbel. It is a...

No need to panic, this photo was not taken on the Warwickshire Avon or anywhere else local for that matter. It was taken in Buckfastleigh, D...

We popped down to the Avon last night for a short session. I had the intention of catching a Zander and Cockney Steve fancied a Barbel. The ...

Last week's Barbel has started an addiction to the species again and this week I arrived on the Avon at dawn as the sun started to beam ...

Most of my fishing this year has been for Tench, chasing an elusive double. It was becoming slightly monotonous.  In the last couple of week...

Family commitments are restricting my time on the bank at the moment but with the river so low and clear it would be pointless fishing all d...

I managed to fit two morning sessions in this weekend as the title suggests, and they were very contrasting. On Saturday I went down the Av...