The Amputee Angler

11/11/2025

On this week’s weekly round-up I’m covering 👇🏻

🎖️ Remembrance Day
🎣 Perks of being an all-rounder
🛥️ People selling up their boats
⚓ SIBs
🚫 Why I could never be a charter skipper

As always, I’m just shooting from the hip. Talking as it comes with minimal effort and fuss, saying what’s on my mind.

Thanks for watching

Ben

On this week’s weekly round-up I’m covering 👇🏻🎖️ Remembrance Day🎣 Perks of being an all-rounder🛥️ People selling up their boats⚓ SIBs🚫 Why I could neve...

11/11/2025

A few stills from the river session the other day on the Itchen 🎣

Weather looking sporty all week again with the exception of potentially Saturday which is changing its mind every hour it seems at the minute.

Weekly chat video out later at 6pm 👍🏻

Ben

10/11/2025

When they stay down deep they can be abit of a sluggish fight the browns but when you get one that wants to play and actually go for it they can be quite the acrobats leaping clear like this one here 🎣

09/11/2025

Respects paid this morning in a great turnout locally.

Now for one of the few days of the year I will have a drink 🍻

Big thanks for all the love on Friday nights post and to all my fellow men and women doing the same today around the country 👌🏻

Ben

08/11/2025

He’s outdone himself with the Chevron pattern here on this latest build has John.

A power 0 slow jigging rod that will soon have microwave spiral wrapped guides on it along with the Fuji reel seat.

More on the microwave guides and spiral wrapped eyes in the coming weeks 🎥👌🏻

08/11/2025

A really peaceful, fun and enjoyable session down on the river Itchen is now live 🎥

The beauty of being not just a boat angler but abit of an all rounder means I’m not relying purely on wind to go fishing as I can hit not only the shore but also the lakes and rivers and that opens up your fishing world to so much more.

How pretty is that Grayling in this thumbnail by the way 👌🏻

Stick me on in the background and watch me hit a fine assortment of fighting fit river fish 🎣

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UK chalkstream fishing for grayling and brown trout on the River Itchen. A calm day in clear water with steady action all session.The river was surprisingly ...

07/11/2025

Remembrance Sunday 🌹

This Sunday is Remembrance Sunday here in the UK, and with the country feeling more politically divided than it has in a long time, with arguments over flags and all sorts over the last few months, I just wanted to remind folks that this Sunday is not about flags or politics.

It is about taking five minutes to think about the men, women and even the animals (if that is your thing) who paid the ultimate price in our various wars, past and present. I was involved myself in Iraq and Afghanistan, and I lost some great friends over the years, both during and afterwards as a result of PTSD.

For those involved, we were often just pawns in a bigger chess game played by people far from the frontline. But for those of us in the mixer, where the metal meets the meat, we did not fight for politics. We fought for the friends beside us so we could all get home safe, or in my case, as best we could 👍🏻

I do not speak to many of my former colleagues these days, and apart from this one day I am not involved in much that is military related. But I served with some top tier men, and it was a pleasure to be part of my tight knit Reconnaissance and Sniper Platoon. I wish them all well on this day.

Ben

06/11/2025

One of the targets yesterday the Grayling fights in the flow on the edge of large shallow gravel bank that saw all manner of species waiting to hit anything that dropped off over the edge. Like a single piece of sweetcorn under a float 🙌🏻

05/11/2025

The Amputee Angler Report 🖊️ 📔

160 mile round trip today to fish the lower river Itchen in Southhampton for a crack at a few Grayling 🎣

Now I expect a few Brown Trout when doing this here but Christ it was silly today 😅 The first few are good fun then they become abit of a pain when they beat the target to baits and swarm a swim in the numbers they were today.

Totals

17 Brown Trout
3 Sea Trout
4 Grayling
Salmon Parr
Minnow

Really fun day and did hit a few of the target but only one being respectable but the 3 Sea Trout were very acrobatic and nice addition along with the other bits.

Trotted maggots or corn the order of the day 👍🏻

Ben

05/11/2025

Busy few hours at the river but it was abit silly for one species as you can see they was pretty much throwing themselves on the hook 😅

Report out later 🙌🏻

Ben

05/11/2025

Scenic views and peace today 🎣

04/11/2025

The weekly chat is up now 🙌🏻

Welcome back to the weekly round-up — talking all things going on this week here with The Amputee Angler.We’ve been suffering, like most on the south coast, ...