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s I’ve written before,
when you choose to
lure fish is down to
personal choice but
for me the “season” is never
over and I relish the opportunity
to once again be able to target
river pike and other predators
throughout all the seasons of
the year.
Spring is a season of
reflection as this is the time that
I update my records in the
previous year’s log book and
start the new year with a clean
slate. If you are serious about
your lure angling then keeping
records can be a good idea for a
number of reasons. Firstly and
perhaps most importantly, it
allows you to accurately record
information that perhaps over
time you will forget, obviously
things such as location, species,
weight, weather, time of year,
lure used etc. and one of my
favourite’s - strange occurrences.
Secondly and perhaps just as
importantly, it allows you to
compare each year and as the
time passes you can see patterns
emerging and it becomes a
valuable tool to remind you to
revisit old venues and locations

• perhaps that forgotten 18lber is
  now over the magic 20lb barrier.
  Lastly, trying to recall all the
  adventures, experiences, fish
  caught, places and people fished
  with can be like trying to push
  smoke back down a chimney, it’s
  impossible. A yearly log book
  can capture all this for reference,
  or it can just be a pleasure to
  read and recount wonderful

2015 – A new year

and a fresh start

A new year beckons, fresh challenges await us, there’s new tackle to use

and I’m certainly excited about the year ahead says Nathan Edgell

memories, especially in those

times when we can’t get out

on the bank.

As a lure angler my season

doesn’t hold to the traditional

“autumn/winter” campaigns

and I follow the calendar in my

record keeping and predator

fishing. This year I’m going to

try my very hardest to get to

some of the events that the LAS

holds and hopefully I might

meet some of you there. At the

beginning of a new year some

may consider targets to aim for,

it could be a 4lb perch or a river

twenty pound pike and that is

absolutely fine, if you’ve done

this then I hope you achieve

every single one that you can.

For myself there are only ever

three targets I set and I gave this

subject some serious thought;

Have fun and enjoy my sport.

Avoid the dreaded blank.

Catch as many fish as I can.

Anyway enough about all

that, I’m sure as this issue hits

your mats spring will be in the

air. I love all the seasons as each

comes with it’s own challenges

and puzzles to work out and

spring is certainly no exception;

it’s a fantastic time for fishing

with lures. Of course, that said,

as we approach March the river

days are numbered and it’s a

time to get out on the bank as

much as you possibly can before

the close season. Love it or hate

it, the close season puts paid to

river lure angling for coarse fish,

but of course it’s not all doom

and gloom as for three months

I then switch to still waters and

something I intend to do more

of this year is to get out with

my lure rod on the canals.

A nice Tubeology caught

pike – the components of

which were put together by

me on the bank, to suit the

conditions of the day