Daily Archives: July 29, 2025

Canal fishing is regarded by many Irish anglers as a waste of time, just angling for tiddlers while being pestered by dog walkers. Indeed, the Royal Canal is often condescendingly referred to as ‘the ditch’ in some quarters, but I know different. Feeling a bit burned out after 7 uninterrupted days of sanding and paintingContinueContinue reading “Down on the ditch again”

A couple of years ago an old friend and I went fishing on lough Cullen one fine July day. My outboard would not pump cooling water, so we returned to shore, removed my engine and got his engine out of the old wooden shed. After lugging it down to the mooring and fixing it toContinueContinue reading “Old rod repairs”