SATURDAY21st October 2000

On Tuesday I fished the match at Woodland View and drew peg 21 on the front Deans pool. A combination of chopped worm, caster and sweetcorn pole-fished on the bottom and in the margin brought me a 36.10.0 return and a section win. The match was won by team mate Norman Carpenter on the back…

Once you’ve purchased your new pole and spare top kits the next thing to consider is correct elastication inside the top sections. Newcomers to the sport often get this wrong and end up using light grade elastic when they should be using heavy and heavy elastic when they should be using light. Really it’s all…

The massive cod catches from Dungeness beach in Kent back in the 1960’s were the catalyst that spawned the dramatic development in surf fishing tackle and casting techniques that we witnessed through the 70’s and 80’s. Modified tackle and the pendulum cast gave us the ability to put big baits out well over 100-metres into…

The “Queen of Rivers” River Namsen, Norway River Namsen is regarded as the most productive salmon river in Norway’s southern part, providing 25 – 30 tonnes of rod-caught salmon annually. River Namsen is also particularly famous for its big salmon – and throughout the season (1/6 – 31/8) there is always the change of catching…

Millenium Open Shore Sea Angling Championship 2000 It has long been my ambition to organise an international angling competition to celebrate the millennium, may I take a moment of your time to explain to you about our exiting project, “The Catch of a lifetime” I am Ken Middlemist, chairman and secretary of the Millennium Open…

One of the pools has 43 different fish over 30lbs and another, which is to open for holiday angling next year, has 1000 fish over 20lbs including a couple of hundred fish over 30lbs. Such is the stocking of this lake, the owners are at the moment removing fish instead of the normal practice of…