Early September. For the last week or so we have had rain overnight, good for the gardens and pond levels, but on fishing day the rain stopped at ten AM as we arrived at our destination, and Bampa even had suntan lotion on by lunchtime. If you have read our first two books, Newbie Anglers and then The Difficult Second Year, then you can skip this introductory paragraphs. For those that are new, read on. To introduce me, Wil, I am fifteen now, going on sixteen, am home schooled with a break on a Tuesdays for fishing, to avoid busy weekends. I am heavily into making stop-motion films and hope that it leads to a career with someone like Aardman Animations. Because I can do a lot of this work on my iPhone, I have a comfortable seat, in a bivvy, and as I work I listen for the revolving spool of a bait runner reel that is un-alarmed and on a rod-pod. The other end of my setup is always a pink wafter on a method feeder, covered in sticky micro-pellets, and cast out towards a feature on the po

Very Late-August. The End Of Year Two – Carol’s Pond, Cadoxton Lakes. The heat waves seem to be over, we experienced a drop in pressure on the day before fishing day, and we had rain on the way to the venue with blustery wind while fishing. We’d travelled just before our fishing day and managed, on the second attempt, to find Treoes Fishing Pond, a water that Glamorgan Anglers run near Pencoed. It looked idyllic but had four gee phone signal so we agreed that we would fish there some time in the future, but for now, when we fished together it would be Cadoxton Lakes, and if I couldn’t go for some reason, Bampa would try Treoes on his own. It seemed appropriate to finish our year on Carol’s pond at Cadoxton, because I love both the pond and the five gee phone signal it allows, but after a series of mishaps and accidents, it nearly didn’t happen. For various reasons, our journey started late, but eventually we got away. As we approached the ponds with around two hundred metres to go, th

A day at Seven Oaks Fishery near Pontyclun follows a previous successful session, as the angler returns to target carp feeding close in and sets up a groundbait mix before fishing an empty pond all day.

A fishing-trip account from Sue’s Pond, covering bivvy setup, rod and rig choices, and how the anglers settled into their peg before using measuring sticks and wraps to mark casting distance.

Yet another failure at float and ledger fishing, but a PB carp on the side. Will we pack it in and revert to normal methods? See next week's thrilling episode.

We thought we had things cracked at last, and we were wrong. We thought it would be a pleasant day for fishing, and we were wrong. Maybe next time then.