Joe Chatterton's Angling Diary

I'll start this post the same way as everyone else seems to start theirs at the moment: River bank high, chocolate coloured, drop in ...

With the amount of water around at the moment and hurricane Frank violently battering us,(it took the roof off the kid's playhouse...

I half-heartedly cast a line yesterday into a rapidly rising Warwickshire Avon. Thankfully it doesn't look likely to break its banks ...

The initial intention was to fish for Barbel and I set up in the same swim as last week. Conditions looked great, the river was about a foo...

When I made my first cast this morning there was more hope than expectation. Over night temperatures were hovering around 5 degrees centigra...

The conditions were perfect for a days Perch fishing, little windier than I would have liked but dull and overcast for the whole day.  ...

The recent drop in temperatures had me reaching into the freezer for some home made cheese paste and I headed off down the Warwickshire A...

  There are far too many idiots in this world and sadly fishing has it's fair share. I didn't believe it when Andy told me that so...

This weekend I managed to get a pass out for a full days fishing. Initially the plan was to fish the river Frome but the gale force win...

A rare occurrence took place today, the sun came out, accompanied by a slither of blue sky. Albeit brief it was enough to have me scrab...