SATURDAY21st October 2000

For such trips I particularly favour a roving approach. Pockets are filled with tackle and a bait smock is stuffed with maggots and maybe a few slices of bread and some other baits. I go armed with a 14′ match rod and centre pin and the only other thing I have to carry is a…

After telling you all last month at my spectacular non-event at the newly formed ‘Loggies Lake’, I thought I would re-live this weeks adventure. Andrew had cried off due to ‘pressure of work’; he really ought to learn the value of prioritising, but as he says, “All work and no play keep the debt collectors…

Traditionally it is fished as a point fly with a floating line and a greased up leader using a very slow retrieve. However there are many other methods of fishing this buzzer including having a dry or floating fly on the point with the buzzer fished on a short dropper. Another useful approach is to…

The writer will tell us about seeing barbel glide from under the lush green canopy of weed and begin to feed on the clean gravel. He may also describe how he waits for the barbel to make an appearance and begin to mop up the scattering of sweetcorn he had introduced earlier. We northern anglers…

The rivers are bare bones and algae is starting to build up, in fact conditions are looking a bit grim. It’s times like this when I fear for our rivers. Under conditions of normal flow levels a slight pollutant getting into the river would probably be diluted but in conditions of little flow we could…

Following on from last monthís piece about bluewater fish, this month Iíll try to give you some dubious advice about my favorite top ten UK fish for eating. a brill in the hand is worth ten quid at a push (well, the proverb nearly works, dunnit ?) quite the best thing that happened to me…