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My rod will be already set-up with 4lb line and size eight hook. The landing net will be set-up and folded down. Everything else will be ready in my little pack. It is much easier to approach fish from below, so if there is time I will walk to the bottom of the stretch I…

I travelled there with my Melksham friend Paul Crook who had never fished the reservoir before, so I filled him in by telling him how small dry flies have generally been the order of the day when I have fished there in the past.The Major Clubs competition is the brainchild of my old college lecturer…

No sooner have we latched on to the latest line of kit when a newer shinier model appears, leaving our past purchase looking little more than a poor second. All too often we find ourselves flitting like mayflies from one goody to the next, ever anxious to find that wonder gizmo capable of bringing us…

I took a flight from Baltimore’s International airport for Orlando Florida. One of the great things about flying in the United States is the cheap air fares, compared with rip-off Britain’s air fares, high airport taxes and of course the very high tax on fuel. My destination was the town of Titusville on the east…

I remember a good few years back when Nev Fickling wrote a couple of articles about specimen hunting on the River Trent, entitled ‘The Specialist Trent’. I’d never fished the Trent at the time, but found his knowledge and advice in these pieces very interesting and could relate it to my own fishing on the…

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