BRYANS ANGLE

Last week i actually had a whole 7 days of off work and took the other half on holiday to Devon. We started of spending the first night in Dartmouth, a favourite place of mine as its absolutely beautiful as you stand on the quayside and look across the river to the opposite bank. After our night in Dartmouth we went of to spend a few days with my family in Torquay as my sister was getting married there. All went well with the wedding and after a few days with the family we moved on to spend a couple of days staying in Longleat, where we visited the safari park and generally chilled out. Whilst in Devon i just happened to find a rod, reel and bag of tackle stashed away in the car, so what was i supposed to do other than grab said gear and head down to Brixham breakwater with my Dad and have a wee dabble for the day. It was roasting hot as we set up stall half way along the breakwater, tying feathers to our rods we hoped to bag some mackeral. We both only had lightweight spinn...

Hi everyone, just thought i,d drop this in to let you know about a recent trip i had on the 26th to a local river in search of the mighty stripey.... Well i arrived at my destination about 7pm on what was a very hot evening following a scorcher of a day. I was all revved up to try for a nice fat summer perch so i started of in an area between some boats with a few lures to try and tempt anything with teeth. Well after an hour i hadn,t even had a tug which i was a little disappointed in as this stretch is usually jack pike alley during the winter months. I then decided it was time to target the species i had come for, The Perch, so off i went and sneaked into my favourite swim in front of a big live-aboard boat. Your not actually allowed to fish this area but as long as your quite, don,t leave any mess and generally behave your ok. Thats unless some toss bag of a boat owner doesn,t telephone the lock keeper who promptly comes round and kicks you off, as happened to me this time. Why a...

Hi all, its been a while since my last post because i,ve been so busy with work. Everyones ponds are having problems and its yours truly who gets the job of fixing them. Nevermind it pays for the fishing i guess. Anyways on 21st June myself and my Dad pointed my truck in the Norfolk direction and set of at 5.30am bound for wroxham broad. I,d booked a days lure fishing with my old mate Allan Griffith owner off Predator People and he was going to take us out in search of some nice lure munching pike and perch. We arrived an hour early and found Allan already with boat in water waiting so we loaded up quickly and away we went. We started in the river by slowly drifting while there was little boat traffic around. The aim being to cast our various lures into any likely looking areas. It started of an overcast day with a little breeze which we thought would be perfect conditions for a toothy attack on our lures. Well after a morning of doing this all we had to show for our efforts was a ...

Hi all, i havn,t been fishing much of late due to work commitments so havn,t had anything to report on really. I,ve spent my spare time, which there hasn,t been much off, either doing the dreaded diy or just sitting comatosed on the sofa watching the big flashing window on the wall. I did actually manage to get a mornings fishing on bank holiday Monday at a local club water. The weather was due to be nice in the morning and wet and horrible in the afternoon, so i opted to get up early and beat the rest rest of the anglers and arrived on the bank at 4.30am. OOOOOhhhhhh that was hard to do.. I set up in a nice swim with a big bay in front of it and lillies also 5 yards out. My approach was a small method feeder cast to the far margins of the bay in hope of a passing tench and possibly a carp, and float fishing tight to the near lilly pads primarily for tench again but basically anything that came along. Within 15 mins my method loaded with dark groundbait, hemp, corn, micro pellets a...

Yesterday one off my fishing clubs opened up their gates again after a months closure. Considering it had been a sunny day and i was really in need of a bit of fishing R&R I grabbed some kit and popped over to my local club water no more than a mile from where i live. As was expected it was pretty rammed with anglers, well carpers actually, but i didn,t mind as i was going surface fishing for some of the carp population in some sneeky out of the way swims that never see a boilie, pellet or hair rig.  My first couple of swims saw a couple of carp slowly rise to my oiled floating trout pellets but not actually taking them with any gusto. So i set of around the complex taking note of any likely looking areas for future trips. This complex has 8 gravel pits to choose from 3 around 3/4 acres and the remaining 5 are only small, small enough to cast a float across. By about 6.30pm i had located a swim on pit 5 which had a fair few carp readily taking my pellets so i sat myself down ...

Last week Sharon and myself took the dogs for a walk along another estuary river close to where we live. The weather was sunny with a nice wind which kept you cool as the temperature started to go up. The tide was just starting to come in as we reached the top of the sea wall which meant I could see where the deeper water was. We walked for about a mile until we came to a sharp bend in the sea wall and where the deeper water looked to be closer in. As i walked round a bush saying to myself how this area looked ideal for a spot of fishing in front of me were 2 old boys waiting for the tide to come in some more. After a good chat with them some good local information was given and greatly received. Apparently this is a good area for bass, with some good size fish being caught too, as well as mullet. Throw in some flatties and eels and alls good. Well that made my mind up to give it a go here in the next couple of weeks when the tides right, as not only is it barely fished, its also p...

This morning i was up at 4.30am and drinking a cup of tea whilst making my sausage sandwiches in anticipation of a good days tenching at a local club water. It was misty outside which added to the excitement as i started the truck engine and set of to my destination. Upon arrival, a little later than i hoped for, the sun was rising but shrouded by low mist and the water had a lovely whisp floating above it. A classic tench fishers morning. I spent the next 45minutes watching the water for signs of tench activity but unfortunately all that was showing was a few silver fish, not even a carp was seen to bosh out. Pretty odd really as this is quite a visual lake as you always see fish of one sort or another moving around in the upper layers. A decision was made and i was loaded up and making my way around to the opposite side of the lake where there was a large gap between the slumbering carpers. It amazes me how most carp anglers sleep in late while they are fishing. Early morning is th...