BRYANS ANGLE

Its been a hard week at work this week and i,m knackered. Couple that with the fact that my better half is working away for the week and i have to look after and walk the dogs as well as keep the house tidy etc, i am well and truly fooked. Its actually 8.30pm as i write this on my laptop and i,m tucked up in bed with the dogs snuggled up next to me. What a lightweight !!!!!!!!! I could of gone fishing this afternoon as i finished early enough but i was too knackered so sat on the sofa watching a series i recorded from sky called Ultimate Fishing Experience, i think thats what its called. Its a rather over enthusiastic chap from New Zealand who was fishing for great white sharks, then striped marlin followed by giant swordbills. All good adrenaline pumping stuff. This got me day dreamimg about the places i,ve fished abroad and the species i,ve caught. I,ve done the carp fishing in France three times now, once on a small lake in the Loire valley region which was actually not...

At 6.30 this morning i left for work as usual, i generally do this 6 times a week as most of you do. Unfortunately we all have to work to pay for the trappings of modern life. But the past couple of mornings have been different, i,ve felt that slight coolness in the air. You can smell it too, Autumn, that is. It gives a slight cool, musky, fresh smell which re-freshens the senses. I love it............ Some of the trees locally have started to drop some leaves. And as you look across the fields you can see that the colours are starting to dullen as the leaves start to turn. Farmers have been busy harvesting their fields which is always a sign of summer ending. And if you keep watch over these fields you,ll notice that the wood pigeons are started to group together. Autumn is on its way....................

A couple of days ago i was sitting at my desk in the office trying my best to catch up on my ever increasing  paperwork but my head wasn,t in it. All i could think of was sitting in the sun by some water and attempting to catch some fish. I tried in vain to dismiss these thoughts and carry on number crunching but to no avail. Eventually, as always, the uncontrollable desire to wet a line over came me and i downed pen, turned off the computer and toddled of to my tackle room to grab some kit. The problem now was what i actually should fish for and where. Within a 10 mile radius of where i live i have 6 club waters, 1 syndicate water, numerous miles of day ticket river and god knows how many miles of the Crouch and Blackwater estuaries to fish. Decision decisions!!!!! In the end i opted to take the light lure gear to my syndicate water and have a bash as last time i was there i spent an evening watching good size perch smashing through shoals of fry underneath the tips of my carp r...

Well i,ve finally done what i,ve wanted to do for many years. I,ve started my own tackle shop. I know have an on-line tackle shop selling all the terminal tackle that you will need. My aim is to stock as many companies tackle as possible so that you,ll have a one stop shop for whatever you will need. So check out my website and find the items that your local shop doesn,t stock. www.waterbouystackle.co.uk I,m adding new stock weekly so keep popping in to see which manufacturers we have. At the moment i have: KAMASAN ULTIMA THINKING ANGLERS ENTERPRISE TACKLE SOLAR PALLATRAX ATOMIC TACKLE ELITE ANGLING JOHN ROBERTS As well as numerous other small companies.

Since returning from holiday i,ve only managed one over night session on my syndicate water. Unfortunately this didn,t result in any carp on the bank but i did have 6 screaming runs which resulted in 6 good thumps on the rod as lifted into them which then resulted in me reeling in 6 great big balls of weed with no fish hidden inside. This water is a nightmare as there is so much weed in it making it really hard to find a clear spot. And when you find a spot to place a bait when you finally get a run the carp lodge tight in a nearby weedbed as soon as you pick the rod up. I will get to grips with the place, i just need to spend a bit more time there. I did manage this cracking rudd on a zig rig with a small imitation beetle on the hook. First time i,ve used a zig before. Unfortunately it didn,t register a take and i only realised it was there when i reeled in. It has given me a little idea about trying for the rudd with smaller zigs on my lighter gear sometime though. I reckon that...

Well its been quite some time since i last updated my blog. Not a lot has happened really fishing wise, i,ve been really busy getting my new business venture of the ground and taking a much needed holiday in the sun with my lovely lady. I have been making plans for this winters fishing though and am chomping at the bit for the pike season to begin. I do lure fish a little during the summer but its the winters bait fishing that gets my blood flowing. I,ve also been doing some research into a couple of local club waters that have catfish in them ready for next season. Well lets start with the holiday, and what a holiday it was too. We spent a fortnight on the Island of St Vincent in The Grenadines, at a beautiful resort called Buccament Bay. The resort was fantastic, beautiful setting, good food, friendly people, good food, cracking weather, good food. Does it show I like my grub!!! Anyway i,ll not go into the holiday too much just the spot of fishing I did while we were there. As i...

Well I,ve actually managed to have a bit of fishing lately as she who must be obeyed has been dragging me to  the weddings of various friends and I have been grumbling at how little time i,ve had to go fishing. In the end I think I actually pissed her off so much that she told me to shut the f*** up and go for the weekend . I didn,t need telling twice and I was off like a shot to my secret squirrel syndicate water. When I arrived all the swims I fancied where occupied so I opted to fish the deeper water as there had been a few out from that area the previous week. After setting up camp in my chosen swim I found that there wasn,t actually much weed here, unlike the rest of the lake which is top to bottom with eel grass. Out went a couple of dozen spombs full of particle to a nice gravel area 10ft out from some reeds and two rods were dropped in the area. One on fake corn and the other on a snowman. The third rod was launched as far as I could towards the island on a chod rig. ...