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Whilst we were visiting the water to do our feature finding hopefully we chose nice sunny calm days so we had a chance to see some of the fish we hoped to catch as well. Certainly if we found areas of snags or the early signs of lily beds then we should have seen the…

Traces for Conger, Ling and Ray are often made up from heavy duty commercial grade monofilament between 200 and 400lb breaking strain.If you “roll your own” which truthfully is the only way that you are going to get traces which can be totally relied upon, then using the right crimps for the line diameter, the…

Despite an optimistic start, with several local boats and Stewart Campbell’s Chunda catching some marlin in late May and throughout June, the fish disappeared almost totally on the eve of the tournament and not much has happened since. This is marlin fishing, and everyone who is still here knows it. It just happens to be…

Winter barbel fishing can also be fast and furious, if only for short periods. On many rivers stretches which are filled with anglers all summer long suddenly become deserted after the first frosts. All of these factors have meant that my barbel fishing year has rarely begun before September over the last few years. Apart…

mullet [Species Menu] [mullet articles] Common name: Grey Mullet Latin name: Mugil labeo, Mugil capito, Mugil labrosus Mullet make an interesting target for the shore based angler, not least because the largest specimens and best fishing is often found only a few feet from the shore! This is reflected in the record weights with the…

There are four main waters here, three low stocked un-pressured large waters and one better stocked, pressured lake. Firstly, The Ash Tree Pit that I had fished heavily the previous season, and a water I’ll be detailing in the final part of this series. A very large, untapped, broken-up lake of massive potential for big…