Loving Wife?
Unlike George in the following cartoon clip, I think I have a pretty damn good fishing wife. She has been very tolerant of my fishing obsession, and tackle-tartiness to some extremes I’m far too embarrassed to confess to and write about on my blog. Letting me go off on carp trips overseas for months without complaining about it is only half the story. She’s really good like that, kudos where it is deserved, she’s a gem and I am so... [Read More...]
Fish Face?
~The koi with a human looking face~ After some gloomy content of late, and throwing up the possibility of nuking NCFB altogether, I thought I’d lighten the mood of things a little with this interesting newspaper article I read whilst in the UK. NCFB will continue (deafening cheers and church bells ring out in the background), after much soul searching and words of encouragement from diehard Niblet supporters I will keep it going despite many... [Read More...]
Bored Carpers…
Desperate To Get A Bend In Their Rods… …can be seen doing some strange, and seemingly unorthodox things when the local carp fishing has got them down in the dumps. Never could that statement ring truer than it does now. If you have read any of my earlier blogs about water quality or dying rivers, you’ll get what I mean, without me needing to whinge on about it any further. Last Wednesday, my day took a very unexpected twist.... [Read More...]
Underwater Koi Footage
Oh yawn… not more underwater carp footage! Well, perhaps I can be forgiven for this lighthearted indugence, considering it has been a very long time since I’ve actually caught a koi. In fact it must be almost a year now – that’s shocking! But let me tell you it’s not for the lack of trying, it’s just that my local venue is extrordinarily hard these days. A recent fish kill has made the degree of difficulty... [Read More...]
Camping & Carping In WA No Way!
Is there anywhere I can put my bivvy up Bruce? I have just returned from what has to be one of the most disastrous carp trips to date. The sheer frustration I experienced from this colossal cluster was enough to drive someone of lesser mental fortitude to a complete nervous breakdown! However, I admit I did throw a massive tantrum at the lake, once we came to realise that our cunning plan to fish there for the weekend was completely out of the... [Read More...]
Southwest Quest ~ Part 2
I had hoped to whack on several blogs while I was on holiday, but wrestling with the touch screen keypad of my iPhone with hands like bunches of bananas, proved to be very frustrating to say the least. Adding to this difficulty I had no phone coverage at my cabin, and in order to get a signal I had to either drive 10km into Pemberton, or do a bit of a hike up the nearest hill. Besides, my forest fishing exploits came down to one solitary, and rather... [Read More...]
Bite Me!
01/01/10 ~ Day one of 2010 found me walking around a Perth lake with the Missus, trying walk off some lard from the previous evenings excesses. By the time the wife (Kathy) and had got going it was already starting to get hot, and as we hit the trail it was probably in the high twenties. Driven by gluttonous guilt, we persisted and walked the entire circumference (some 5km or so) of one of our local, and notoriously snakey metro lakes. We had... [Read More...]
Reel Aussie Innovation
Yesterday, I set up a stall at a ‘Swapmeet’ held within the Wanneroo Showgrounds, to try and sell off some of my crap, as an ongoing process to raise money for my next carp trip! An old chap set up shop opposite to us, and proceeded to lay out an assortment of junk, consisting mostly of old tools, as well as a few fishing rods. Naturally I wandered over to get a closer look at the latter – I’m a hopeless tackle tart! ... [Read More...]
Bedchair Bungle
I’ve put this hilarious video clip on because this is a friend of a friend incident. ‘Dave’ – the rather hungover victim of this prank really bit some dirt – the poor bugger! But, nevertheless, as cruel as this is to do to one of your carping buddies – it’s hell funny… I’ve had a lot of problems with the video format and resulting visual quality of this clip – sorry. As my video editing... [Read More...]
Amorous Anglers Beware!
I wish I could’ve included the raunchy photo that I was sent earlier this week, but I fear it may offend some…hence the ‘Censored’ thumbnail instead. Others that received the same proposal via a rather poorly moderated fishing forum (which will remain nameless) might get a bigger bite than they’d bargained for, if attracted to this very dangerous baited hook! I’ve seen a lot of scams, spam and cons in my time,... [Read More...]
