Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

I have not posted for a long time because I have not caught a fish for what seems like an eternity. With the change of season I decided to...

This would be a brilliant place to film a horror movie. A misty spooky start to a days Grayling fishing in the heart of the beautiful Wels...

Wednesday Took a break from fishing yesterday but I did introduce my 20 month old little boy to the wonders of the local fishing shop. H...

I am off work this week purely for fishing but could only manage a short lure session this morning due to family commitments. I spotted t...

..........is better than a good day in the office. I agree with the tacky signs that can be found in equally tacky shops but today I almost ...

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...