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I can’t even remember the name of the pub on Achill Island, in County Mayo, where I heard a phrase in Irish : ‘Ronnoch mor’ but I’m sure it was uttered by a big, red-faced, 60-ish commercial fisherman called Mangan. I asked him what it meant and he said, “The great mackerel”. Now at the…

Knockferry Lodge Knockferry Lodge is situated right on the southwestern shore of Lough Corrib, at over 44,000 acres (18,000 hectares) surface area it is the largest lake in the Republic of Ireland. We are 13 Miles (20 kilometres) from the city of Galway between Galway and the wild and rugged beauty of the Connemara landscape….

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…

What sad creature perpetrated that? I thought. And then I realised that I actually knew who was behind it, because I’d met her. That was back in the ’80s, in the USA, in a field near the little town of Higgins, Pennsylvania. She was an Englishwoman named Ingrid Newkirk and she was leading a PETA…

Location: Take the A1079 from York towards Beverley and Hull. Travel for approximately 11 miles passing Pocklington Industrial Estate and the Gliding School on your left. Then look for the brown and white signs for the caravan park and fishery which is a turning on the right. This turn-off is virtually opposite the Yorkway Motel….

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