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My personal bests
The fish featured here were all caught after my return to fishing around the time I retired. However, they exceed anything I caught when I was young, the opportunities and my ability then being more limited.
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Mirror 19lb
Fields End
9 June 2008
Roach 1lb 7oz
Fields End
27 April 2010
Crucian 2lb 7oz
Fields End
1 April 2011
River Carp 6lb 5oz
River Indrois France
23 June 2012
Chub 5lb 2oz
Stamford River Welland
23 June 2013
Lake Barbel 8lb 8oz
Fields End
30 March 2021
Perch 1lb 14oz
Offord Cluny
10 November 2022
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Some notable chub
I have a bit of a thing about chub and since getting back into fishing around the time of my retirement I have had some success.
Here are some of the better fish presented in date order.
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The beginning of my love of chub
Aged 16 - my first big fish 3lbs 2oz 10dm
Taken from the Holy Brook
With the Stonebridge Park Angling Society (S.P.A.S.)
4lb 8oz
River Welland
Luncheon meat
23 July 2009
3lb 8oz
River Wye
Luncheon meat
2 September 2010
My only trip to the Wye
4lb 8oz
River Welland
Bread flake
14 March 2011
4lb 7oz
River Welland
Cheese
5 July 2011
4lb 8oz
River Welland
Cheese
12 July 2011
4lb 8oz
River Welland
Luncheon meat
13 November 2012
4lb 7oz
River Welland
Luncheon meat
27 June 2013
5lb 2oz (PB)
River Welland
Luncheon meat
23 June 2014
4lb 5oz
River Welland
Cheese
16 June 2015
3lb 3oz
Chubb Stream
Cheese paste
10 November 2020
3lb 6oz
Mill Stream
Cheese paste
14 October 2021
3lb 0oz
Trout Stream
Bread flake
09 December 2021
3lb 10oz
PB for the Trout Stream
Bread flake
08 February 2022
3lb 13oz
PB for the Chubb Stream
Bread flake
16 June 2022
4lb 14oz
PB for the Mill Stream & my second largest chub
Bread flake
24 June 2022
3lb 15oz
Mill Stream
Cheese paste
05 July 2022
3lb 13oz
Mill Stream
Luncheon meat
22 September 2022
4lb 4oz
Mill Stream
Cheese paste
03 August 2023
3lb 12oz
Mill Stream
Bread flake
10 July 2024
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Places I fish or have fished in recent years
These are venues visited since around the time of my retirement. As a youngster I for the most part fished the Thames with occasional visits to other rivers.
I rarely fished lakes.
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The Pit - Fields End
My local Commercial - first fished in 2007
An important and frequently visited venue on my return to fishing in the 2000s
Stake Hill
First fished in 2007
Holiday fishing between Ilkley & Silsden -Yorkshire
River Welland Stamford
First fished in 2009
An important venue for me when I returned to fishing in the 2000s
Block Fen
First fished in 2009
This is a corner of the small Pump Pond
The Clay Pit - a challenging water
First fished in 2010/11
Returned to the pit in 2021 after a long gap
See also a later entry for the side ponds on this lake
Syndicate Lake - Pidley
First fished in 2012
An almost virgin lake when I first fished it
The Chubb Stream
First fished in July 2020
I love small intimate streams!
River Great Ouse - Offord
First fished in 2020
Offord & Buckden AS water
The Trout Stream
First fished in 2020
Another attractive 'stream'
The Clay Pit side ponds
First fished in 2022
These side ponds proved to be far more productive than The Clay Pit itself.
Gravel pit - Earith
First fished in 2022
One of the many pits in the Earith area
River Nene backwaters
First fished in 2022
The P&DAA ticket offers a number of attractive backwaters
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In years gone by ...
A small collection of photographs scanned from old prints. The quality isn't great and they certainly don't reflect the amount of fishing I did when I was young.
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The Holy Brook
Where I caught my first barbel
Copied from a colour transparency in poor conditon
The Holy Brook
Swim where I caught my first sizeable chub - 3lb 2oz 10dr
And downstream where we subsequently caught barbel
A young Bob
River Thames Bourne End
With the Stonebridge Park Angling Association (SPAS)
My first and only Thames barbel
Runnymeade
Legered maggot if I remember correctly
River Lodden at Twyford
Stonebridge Park Angling Society club water
My friend Alastair in the punt at Blenheim Palace lake
With me and another friend Geoff
Our first tench experience
Holiday fishing on the canal in Warwickshire
We stayed in the former lock keeper's cottage just visible along the towpath
Some sport with the local bream
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