TUESDAY11th April 2000

Now, going by the title of this piece you might be forgiven for thinking that this is one of those ‘travel’ pieces. Well. It’s not. It’s actually about how I managed to catch some fish that weren’t feeding. Read between the lines and you might pick up a tip or two – or you might…

If you are just happy going fishing, then the excitement of not knowing might be part of your enjoyment, but for the specimen hunter knowing the potential of your target venues is essential information. Yet, this doesn’t mean that you have to take the element of mystery out of your fishing. We never know everything…

Articles by Russ Symons Russ Symons Russ Symons has been an angling Photographer/Writer for over thirty years, the last twelve of which, writing about and photographing the sea and its fish being his full time occupation. Progressing from a black and white darkroom in the attic of his Plymouth home, to the exacting colour requirements…

BV was quite simply, the best angling writer of the twentieth century. No other angling writer has approached his genius for capturing the distilled essence of what is angling. His books were written in a glorious, almost florid style; never with facile turn of phrase, to a dumbed-down Sun-reader market, but up to a faithful…

Fish like bass, mackerel, mullet, pollack and even wrasse can all be caught high in the water column, often within a foot or two of the surface, especially early and late in the day, when the suns rays are slanting low causing the confusion of colour, light, shadow and movement which the predatory fish use…

Roddy Hays is currently skippering a big-game boat in the Azores, something he’s been doing all over the globe for the past ten years or so. By the miracle of modern technology (i.e. hand written, faxed to wife, typed then emailed!!) Roddy has sent in this, the first of a series, of big-game articles for…