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Once upon a time, in what now seems to be the dim and distant past, virtually all sea fish were expertly landed by the boat Skipper wielding a wickedly sharp gaff. Nowaday’s almost the only time that you will see a gaff used regularly is aboard a conger or shark boat and even then, most…

Throughout the summer, when fishing has been particularly tough, most of the fish caught have been feeding predominantly on bloodworm. Over the years I have fished on Chew I have rarely found that the fish have been so preoccupied with this food source. I believed throughout July and August that the predominance of the bloodworm…

A suspect case of foot and mouth disease has been found near to Chew Valley Lake and thus it cannot open on March 22nd as planned. I guess that we were all expecting this would happen – I really do think that with all the possible bad press that there could be, we should be…

Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…

The mean, no mercy ferocity of a deep water Conger Eel is the legend which generations of European sea anglers have had to measure their angling abilities against. It is one of the few fish in European waters with the ability to brutally heave your rod into a carbon cracking hoop, rip yards of line…

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…