SATURDAY21st October 2000

One of the best baits there is, is bread. Now, I’m not going to talk about big bits of floating bread for carp or anything like that, I’m going to talk about little tiny bits of bread, the biggest about an eighth of an inch size, and the bread punch.When I was a youngster, a…

The days rain was just clearing and the skies began to clear as I rolled the car in to the car park. Round the lake there was not much to show so I set up in the same swim I caught from the week before. Once again I set up with a three boilie rig…

May nineteen-seventy-eight. All arrangements had been made to leave work at 4pm and drive straight down the M4 to board the ferry at Swansea. We were off to fish Ireland’s river Blackwater for salmon. one of several perch caught on fly the river Blackwater from Fermoy Bridge Me wading the fast & slippery Lugg Pool…

Specie: Pike Weight: 22lb Location: Big reservoir outside Oldham, Lancashire. (Sept. 2000) Can you believe this was my first ever fish after pike fishing for nearly two years. Believe me it was well worth the wait!

For more than a fortnight the wind has been from the northeast and this has had quite an amazing effect on the fish. From one day to the next it is impossible to predict whether they will be feeding during daylight hours. Much of this is really down to the buzzers: If they hatch in…

With the end of the season upon us it’s good to look back upon past events for though I live amongst some of the finest trout angling in the UK this does not give immunity from drama, far from it. Learning as much from mistakes as from observation is the key to long term successful…