Fishing with Tony…

Back in August, I was contacted by a lady who wanted to find her husband someone to go fishing with: She’d heard about Reels on Wheels and the Buddy System and phoned me. Her husband Tony had had an accident some years previously (he’d fallen on his head from some scaffolding…) and although he’s physically [...]

Using my resources…

My biggest resource is my fellow-anglers, closely followed by The Wife! As a result of a “power hour” meeting with some business advisors in Bude yesterday, she sat and wrote an email out, basically asking for support and £1 donations to help us raise the £5000 we need to achieve registered charity status. She has [...]

Thanks for your support!

I’d like to thank Pete McDonald (Fishing Jones) for the email he sent me about my bid to fish the Marlin World Cup 2008. Here’s what he wrote:
I was just wondering from over here in the States if you’ve had any success getting sponsorship. I posted it on my blog in hopes it might send [...]

Fundraising locally…

For the last 2 weeks at Hatherleigh Market on Sundays we’ve run a stallholders’ only raffle to raise funds for Reels on Wheels. Last week we raffled a brand new microwave which cost £22 and we sold 62 tickets at £1 each. We banked £40 on Monday and yesterday we donated the prize ourselves (Royal [...]

Final countdown to France!

Claire has  been to her local tackle shop again and we now have the choice of two dates for our French safari. These dates are for one week starting on a Saturday and finishing on Saturday.
Just to remind everyone of what we are planning, a weeks fishing on a 12 acre closed (completely fenced and [...]

Charity Match plus…

As you already know, I’m fishing the Charity Carp Match in aid of Reels on Wheels and St. James’s Place Foundation on 20th-21st October at Woodland Waters, Ancaster, Lincs. After the match, there will be a meal and the prize-giving with a celebrity guest presenter. I have no idea yet who that will be – [...]

The way it goes…

Yesterday, in the flurry of preparing the stall and catching up with the locals we see every week at the Sunday Market, I completely forgot to take any pics! So I shall rectify that next week. However, I did make a sale – sold a rod!! Woohoo – first Reels on Wheels Tackle Shop sale! [...]

Tackling up for Sunday Market

Well tomorrow we’re off to Hatherleigh Boot Market where the wife and DD go every Sunday to work and sell, and this week I’m taking the Reels on Wheels Tackle Shop with us! We started selling tackle for two reasons: To be able to pass on good discounted tackle to our members and also to [...]

Lancashire visit

I was invited to the Fishery next to the Red Herring Pub in Coppull Lancs by Jim a member of the 5C’s Syndicate (Zyg Gregoreks Syndicate) Jim told me that he had arranged a fund raising day for Reels on Wheels.
I arrived at about 11pm Friday evening and Jim met me at the motorway turn [...]

Claire does some Pussy Prodling…

Not as strange as it may sound, as Claire had her first experience of Catfishing this week! Here’s how she described the events as they unfolded:-
“As some of you may know I like to blow the ROW trumpet, so when I first visited the Manderson Trust lakes and they mentioned that they had a problem [...]