It is always a pleasure to see the return of Neil and his son Harry as they come down to North Devon for there summer holidays, both keen as mustard to get on the water and get into some Bass, each year there skills improve and excitement is always high. Between them over two days guiding they caught over 30 fish mainly taken off the top and generally small but great fun nonetheless, Neil broke his pb with a lovely fish taken on a fiish crazy eel…

Paul Bartlett booked in a short session and second cast was into a nice fish taken bumping a soft plastic in the flow a technique new to him but one he is definitely gonna try on his home patch in Kent…great stuff..

As ever this time of year I’m busy fishing so this is just a catch up on recent catches, the weather has been typical August kids break up from school kind of thing, wind, rain, hail you name it !!, which have made the fishing tricky at times but it bothers the angler more than the fish !!..

Its always a pleasure having Trev and Nobby down for some guiding and over the years I have known them we have become good friends,we all love fishing,beer and a good curry, life is simple sometimes !!.

The guiding ended up being a short session but ended up with 8 fish in total in some tricky conditions, the icing on the cake being Nobby getting a new shore pb taken off the top on the tackle house vulture…

So needless to say I’m already looking forward to catching up with them later in the year…