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The editor ‘phoned me last night to give his appraisal of my latest literary offerings; that’s the www.fishing.co.uk editor. “You remember fishing?” He enquired, his sarcasm barely detectable to the naked ear. His point being that although my recent ramblings were quite entertaining they had very little to do with angling, a small but valid…

Whilst not everyone will decry it’s passing, one of the most obvious casualties of the mass exodus of anglers from the banks of our rivers is the loss of skilful ledgering. Some anglers would laugh at the use of the words ledgering and skill in the same sentence, but for those who are not content…

This year a lot of anglers will be going abroad to try for that first big catfish. The fact that continental cats are so much easier to catch than our UK ones is one reason and another is that they grow so much bigger! And big cats draw anglers like Leonardo Decaprio attracts women.The UK…

What will we catch next year ? English boat, English angler, English carp rod, European barracuda. Coming your way soon ? A nice big-eye from Madeira. Imagine the panic a shoal of this lot south of the Scillies would create ! You do not need flash USA-made boats to catch big-game fish. This is a…

Articles by John Olliff-Cooper John Olliff-Cooper John started his writing career with Angling magazine in the late 1960’s, since when he has contributed to most of the better-known hard copy magazines. Flirted with modernity for a few years, then panicked at the shallow hype of it all, and fled through 180 degrees. Having been properly…

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…