Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

Morning Session Fladbury Mill and Weir It was already baking hot when I got to the river this morning, not ideal conditions but ang...

Tonight was definitely a case of the one that got away as the title suggests. My face dropped as I pulled into the car park on a gran...

Time is once again of the essence at the moment so another short early morning session on a local stretch of the Avon is all that could b...

The mainstay of my Barbel attack over the past couple of seasons has been luncheon meat on the hook and trotting gear but I felt I was ge...

The upper Warwickshire Avon in it's more intimate and diminutive form is a stunning waterway winding it's way through it's na...

Float fishing for Barbel in fast water is a hazardous occupation fraught with danger from unseen snags and potential hook pulls and wit...

Spent a beautiful summers evening by the Warwickshire Avon trotting for Barbel in one of my favourite swims. Landed my first of ...

My first proper session of the new season saw me armed with half a gallon of maggots and a couple of bags of hemp wandering down to the Wa...

Being a Yorkshireman I have been to Whitby countless times, endured wind and rain, sheltered in amusements and eaten soggy fish and chips...