Tag: Ade Kiddell

Sadly fishing has had to take a back seat over the last few weeks after the unexpected death of my mother. Although in her eighties, she was still very fit and active; she had been out shopping and was cooking dinner when she suffered heart failure.

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The weather always has a huge effect on our fishing; it’s often too hot, too cold, too bright, too wet, and we use the weather more than anything as an excuse why we haven't had a good catch. Truth is, we have to adapt more to the conditions, as it

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A few weeks ago I told you about the visit of Hayden Cook, Angling Directs Customer Services Manager, who had been over for a spot of fishing with us. If you can remember, all his best plans to catch a big river carp were thwarted by a Frenchman and

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Whilst at school I hated foreign languages. Why, at the prime of my teenage life, would I ever need to worry about learning French, Spanish, German or the like? Here I am, 40 years later, living in France and wishing I had paid more attention.Over

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It’s always good to fish with friends and this week has been very good as ex-work colleague and good friend Hayden Cook joined us in France for a few days. Hayden is a good all round angler but loves his carp fishing, so we planned a bit of barbel

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