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Mid 40 for Pooley! PDF Print
Written by jon   
Thursday, 22 May 2008
Team Bankside member Ian Poole has been getting amongst a few this spring with the best so far this 45lb mirror caught from a 35 acre Berkshire Syndicate water. The fish was caught on a Richworth K-G-1 bottom bait fished with a 2 bait stringer cast to a silty area at 90 metres range.

 

 
Andy Howes introduction PDF Print
Written by jon   
Friday, 16 May 2008
Hello and welcome to my monthly feature on Bankside’s new look website! As this is the first instalment in the series I thought I’d better start by giving you a bit of an introduction about me, my angling and what I’m planning to include in this article! Here we go then…!Well, my names Andy Howes, and I’ve been fishing in one form or another since I was about 6 years old. It doesn’t feel like 20 years since I pulled that first Perch out of the Gloucester canal! Over the years I’ve done a bit of everything really, from matches when I was younger and more recently Carp and Pike fishing. I used to love my Carp fishing but over the years I got fed up with fighting not just the fish, but other anglers too, all crammed around the same piece of water. It was time for a new challenge, and I’d always fancied having a go at the Barbel, so it was time to get myself a bit of new gear and get myself down the river!

I found it pretty hard going to be honest, I remember having a little 4lb fish first cast on my first trip, thinking “this is easy!” and then blanked for the next 2 months! I’d always been a still water angler and I really struggled to get my head around the Severn, it just looked like a huge, featureless expanse of water to me and I nearly gave up! But then my next fish tipped the scales at 13lb 2oz, which is still my PB and since then I’ve been obsessed with the Barbel! That fish was a total fluke but to me that’s the appeal of fishing the rivers-you never know whats going to turn up next, which is what drives me on when I’m standing in a foot of floodwater at five in the morning!

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Andy Howes PDF Print
Written by Whitey   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Andy Howes Member of the Bankside Professional Team.
Age:
27
Years Barbel Fishing: 5
UK PB Carp: 26lbs 8oz
UK PB Barbel: 13lb 2oz
Favourite Rivers: Severn and Lower Avon.
Favourite Bait: Curried Luncheon Meat
Favourite Bankside Products: Team Barbel Frozen Nuggets and Paste
Outside of Fishing: Drinking, Power Kiting

 
Stuart Morgan PDF Print
Written by Ian Poole   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Stuart Morgan Member of the Bankside Professional Team.
Age:
39
Years Carp Fishing: Not a serious carp angler

Years barbel fishing: 27
UK PB Carp: 37-10 common
UK PB Barbel: 17-14
Favourite Lakes: Large gravel pits with a low stock
Favourite Rivers: Bristol Avon and Severn

Favourite Bait: Team Barbel, 3RB boilies
Favourite Bankside Products: XL Grubbers with fish protein glug
Hobbies outside of fishing: Scuba Diving

 

 
Ian Poole PDF Print
Written by Whitey   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Ian Poole Member of the Bankside Professional Team.
Age:
36
Years Carp Fishing: 23
Profession: Angling Journalist
UK PB Carp: 46lbs 14oz
UK PB Barbel: 11lb River Severn
Favourite Lakes: Dinton, Smith's Hardwick, Carthagena.
Favourite Bait: Anything that catches 'em off the top. Richworth K-G-1 boilies.
Favourite Bankside Products: Pro Floaters, Mini Grubbers.
Hobbies Outside of Fishing: Photography.

 
Jon Finch PDF Print
Written by Whitey   
Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Jon Finch Member of the Bankside Professional Team.
Age:
26
Years Carp Fishing: 16
UK PB Carp: 45lbs 9oz Linch Hill Fisheries
UK PB Barbel: 12lb 2oz
Favourite Lakes: Abbey Lakes, Stoneacres, Dinton Pastures, Linear Fisheries.
Favourite Bait: Grubber Boilies
Favourite Bankside Products: Mini Grubbers, Dairy Cream

 
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