Posted by Derek Townsend on September 9, 2011 under Sea Fishing | 
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As I begin this new blog (Boxing Day 2010), the air temperature outside is continuing at sub zero to the tune of -6 C plus (daytime), and unmentionable degrees below during the night. The main thoroughfares are clear with the motorway verges still banked high with compressed snow. Side roads, many have not seen aRead the Rest…
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Wed 24th Nov – Fishing 0 hrs – Pub 7hrs It was time for our annual Dungeness pilgrimage. Steve had done all the ground work as usual. Digs, vans, bait and tides all sorted. So eight of us departed for Dungie at 08:00 Wed morning. First stop was 10 miles up the M4 in theRead the Rest…
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Ticker’s World A Blast from the Past No One!! A 27 lb. 5oz. Cod from the beach at Llantwit Major! A 27 lb. 5 oz. cod was caught from a beach near Llantwit Major by Paul Glover, in the early hours of Wednesday morning, 1st January 1980. TheRead the Rest…
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First Encounter!! It is always difficult, pin-pointing a date with any degree of accuracy when looking back over the years, but the story I am about to tell happened towards the latter end of the 70’s. However, there is no doubt in my mind that the incident occurred in early July, during a heat-wave spell,Read the Rest…
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Call Me a Dinosaur!!! It is likely that the reader is familiar with the old adage “there’s many a good tune played on an old fiddle”, accredited to a Samuel Butler (1612- 1680). It personifies my lifelong attitude to so-called “progress” and an inbuilt reluctance to automatically rush to embrace any idea, technology or materialRead the Rest…
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