Well not exactly a fiesta but the first match of season for Blackpool and Layton Angling Society (BLAS) got off to a cracking start today with light winds and glorious sunshine as the eight of us met up at lunchtime at Fairhaven Lake, Lytham, which sits on the other side of the promenade to the Ribble Estuary into which we would be fishing. The target species today was Flounder as they moved into the river with the tide to feed [... read rest of post]
So far so good. I’ve managed to get all the posts from blogger into this blog (using wordpress) without having to retype everything. All the categories, tags and links seem to be working. The next big task is to go backwards through the posts sorting out over or undersized images, I’ve done the first two pages but considering how long they took I might just do them every so often. [edit] I think I’ve managed to redirect all the old [... read rest of post]
Spring is finally here, officially it’s the first day of spring today, also know as the Spring Solstice or Vernal Equinox, and we’ve had some amazing weather this week with temperatures rising as the Sun makes it’s presence known – finally. As for spring cleaning, as well as the usual house related nonsense, I’m migrating this blog fully to a server hosed by supanames using wordpress to drive it and while I’m at it doing that giving it a new [... read rest of post]
We’d had quite a busy day on Saturday doing all sorts of house related stuff so after the obligatory trip to the tip this morning (how does a house generate so much junk?) we drove the whole of 10 minutes to the River Douglas where we fished an hour and a half up to high water and about an hour down. I’d finally got round to clearing out the bait freezer in the garage and given it its’ once when [... read rest of post]
Don’t know how I managed to miss this while I was ‘fishing’ the internet on Monday but John Holden, well known for advancing beach casting techniques, teaching beach and competition casting and all round angler, angling writer and photographer has his own blog which is well worth a read. You can find the blog at lets go beach fishing (nice name), with his main website at www.johnholden.co.uk which has information on the books and teaching videos John has produced.
So here I am after having one of those days that I’d rather forget caused, I think, by a stomache bug that went round work last Friday. I’d planned to go out yesterday but I just wasn’t feeling up to it and have taken the day off work today to get myself back to normal. But, as they say, every cloud has a silver lining and I’ve done a bit of searching on the internet for bits and pieces about [... read rest of post]
It looks like Spring is in the air up here in Lancashire as I spotted this clump of frog spawn in a small pond while walking through Queens Park, Bolton, during lunch time today. Not many birds visible but you could hear them calling in the trees. The weather forecast is for a drop in temperature in the next few days but the signs are there for all to see – spring is on the way.
As the weather was fairly good today I went for a walk along our the local River Douglas, a tributary of the River Ribble that is easily accessible from an anglers point of view at Hesketh Bank. Although the river is very close I hadn’t been along it’s banks for a while as it tends to get very muddy in the winter due to the banks flooding with the higher tides, cows grazing on the salty grass and the sheer [... read rest of post]