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Cassien Late Nov 2011

Thursday, December 15, 2011 | No Comments

Well after a 800 mile drive disaster struck the van started losing power on the motorway so we were forced to pull over after some interesting dialog with a french police man we were picked up by a truck and taken to some dodgy garage luckily we had AA cover so we managed to get

Lures to try before you die

Wednesday, October 26, 2011 | No Comments

I know some of you will be reading this and saying i would never use that look at the state of it the colour is rubbish it will only catch pollack where i live  and that’s fine but thinking out side the box can pay off big time dont be scared to use them. This

Winter carping

Friday, October 21, 2011 | No Comments

It’s a mild, wet and almost pitch black night. Our only light comes from glowing red coals silhouetting sizzling burgers and bacon rashers and the feint blue luminescent flicker of flaming gas under the kettle. I’m sheltering from the rain beneath an over-sized fishing brolly alongside keen carp angler and local tackleshop owner Rik Le

An eel of a time

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It’s 1962. The United States has just put its first astronaut into space and Marvel Comics have introduced a sensational new superhero called Spiderman. Out in the mid-Atlantic Ocean, in the clear, calm, deep blue waters of the Sargasso Sea – the sea without a shore – a female European eel lays her eggs amongst

Free Lining For Bass

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“I’ve got another take! Look at it go! Line’s just whistling off the spool!” My glance over at Rik Le Ray is resigned. This must be his sixth ‘take’ of the evening and he’s simply giving me a battering on the bass. It’s proving to be a humiliating lesson in how to catch, seeing as

Big Bream For Stevie G

Wednesday, October 05, 2011 | 1 Comment

After wondering down to a cliff mark hoping for some bream on the mullet gear i found a couple of anglers already on the mark piling in fishy shirvy so i just sat back and watched had a chat and some 10 mins later Stevie hooked  what we thought was a rocky as the fight

Needle fish caught in bailiwick waters

Saturday, September 24, 2011 | No Comments

Caught on mackerel feathers while fishing  north east of Sark it weighed 40z

Cassien pics from the last couple of trips

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Here are are few pics in  2010 from another trip  

A quick Bream session / Mullet

Friday, September 23, 2011 | No Comments

I was working on the computer this morning and looking at the warm weather thinking i should be fishing.A split second later i was looking at the tides and by 2pm i was fishing i knocked up a quick shirvy mix with some fresh sardine/ bran and white bread  hoping for some black bream on

Lac St Cassien 2010

Monday, September 19, 2011 | 2 Comments

So it was back to Cassien For another 10 day session in late November after a 12 hour drive from St Malo we arrived to see the water level fairly high which is always a good sign also very few anglers another great sign.We headed up to the top of the north arm. We settled