General

The CLA game fair week is finally here, and this year it will be at Blenheim Palace, running from Friday 22nd July 2011 till the Sunday 24th July 2011.  For those of you who've never been before, this is one of the highlight shows in the Fishing / Shooting / Farming and Countryside Calendar... Well Fishing Fools enjoy it anyway   This year, they have Fishing Village, with Fly casting leasons, events, and tackle to purchase... can't wait - The surroundings are stunning with Blenheim Palace providing a superb backdrop - tickets are available at the gate, but if your planning to go on the weekend, make sure you leave home early as the traffic can be a nightmare !  More info on what is at the show is available on the CLA Game fair website.

There are many different baits for fishing and its never easy to decide what bait to take with you. One fishing day I arrived at the tackle shop and was thinking what bait to purchase.  I had planned to use maggot and look for any type of fish. Whilst talking top the guys in the shop the discussion of works came up.   I had never looked in to using worms and was a bit sceptical. 

As I was fishing a river I decided to go for lob worms,  a tub of 10 to be exact.  When arrive to the river and getting setup I was ready to open the tub which contain some soil and the worms. After getting one of these little mingers out of the tub I then placed the whole worm on my hook the worm then wriggled and came of the hook. I picked the it up and noticed it had split into two worms. With one of them I pushed it back on the hook and moved it further up the hook shank.

After some time away due to other activities we are now back! and boy do we have a lot of things to discuss. 

There have only been a small number of fishing trips but there have been a number of intersting finds, so keep reading and hopefully over the next few months we will catch up with the back log of articles.

Well its mid March and  its time to start doing the usual end of season clean up. With the River season drawing to close take the time to clean up you tackle bags and ensure you have all the required items for next season.

 

At the end of the month new EA rod licenses will start so please don’t forget to renew. I did a few weeks ago using the telephone and the process was simple I’m just waiting for the license to arrive in the post.  You can also renew online. The rod license details can can be found at http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/recreation/fishing/31497.aspx

 

For those of you with club memberships don’t forget to check your renewal date or like me you do everything as a last minute panic and struggle to find the cash

Here at fishing fools we are looking forward to another new season on the river in June but with the weather warming  we will be out on the lakes looking to bag some good fish maybe I’ll get that double figure Carp I have bee waiting for for so long

 

Any way good luck for the new season and see you soon.

In another Fishing Fools First, and in the wake of the Hantsweb awards, it seems the interview we had with Judy Goodlet from BBC Radio Solent got aired today at 11am.

 

For any one who missed it, you can listen again to our Radio Broadcast  ... Blimey do we really sound like that