WEDNESDAY25th October 2000

I was there on a feature for the Match Angling Plus magazine and after a discussion with fishery owner Eddie Turner I settled in on peg seven on the Beech Pool. There were carp swimming around on the top all over the pool but after a very slow first hour it was fairly obvious the…

Small fish were showing, but the hot weather nailed me to the bedchair, and I let them be. It was getting to be hard work, this getting up at 3.30am to be fishing before dawn. I decided to fish through the night on the following week-end and arrived at 5pm on the Friday evening suitably…

When the first ghostly shadow appears from the depths you catch your breath. Then another and another fish casually ambles along, not more than a rod length from the bank. You cannot believe your luck, baits are lowered into the margins and you retire back into the undergrowth. As the sun rises higher in the…

Sometime around 8-30 am on the old A5 I left the blue-black smoke pouring from a badly maintained lorry and a car towing a caravan for the peace and quiet of a Shropshire country lane. As I drove down this quiet leafy country lane my mind went back to my childhood days in the countryside;…

The Uists are a chain of islands off the north west coast of Scotland comprising North Uist, Benbecula and South Uist. They lie to the south of the bigger, more populated isles of Lewis and Harris and you can reach them by island hopping with your own car from the north via the ferry from…

Specie: chub Weight: ? Location: nr Doncaster The Chub and the Barbel were both caught on the same mission. They do like luncheon meat! What weight do you think they are, as I didn’t have any scales about as I was travelling light moving up and down the river with the perfectly visible fish. They…