And so, boo hoo, to the last outing of the season. And what a great season it has been. No blanks (!), plenty of fish, including a few whoppers, and access to a terrific new water in the upper reaches of the River Seven here in North Yorkshire. It was to this stretch that I […]
Month: September 2017
River Seven, Yorkshire
Exploring the upper reaches of the Seven: tough going but ultimately rewarding
Keen to cram in as much fishing as possible before the season’s end, I decided to have a crack at the top end of the River Seven on the North York Moors on a stretch of water I haven’t yet fished. When I looked at the river earlier in the week it was running too […]
I was going to save my fishing until later in the week, but the weather forecast looked so good that I decided to give it a crack today. I was a bit worried about river levels given the recent rain, but a quick check on the Environment Agency website suggested that a couple of my […]
Greedy for more fishing before the season ends I had something of a dilemma. After the heavy recent rain, which water would be most fishable? I didn’t fancy the upper stretch of the Seven because if it was a bit high and coloured wading would be a gamble, and having sat on my backside in […]
Even pre-fishing the day didn’t start off so well. I went to the ATM in the local shop to get some cash out and it failed to recognise the PIN I put in. So I’d had a senior moment and misremembered my number and the card got blocked. Bah. So off to Pickering Beck, trying […]
So autumn arrives and its off to Thornton Beck near Dalby Forest just this side of Pickering in North Yorkshire. The beck is narrow, sinuous and tricky at the best of times, albeit stuffed with small fish; with the cooler weather I wasn’t expecting an easy ride. In a pretence at being a traditional north […]