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I think we have to go back to the turn of the last century to try and get a handle on things, certainly before the Industrial Revolution the River was full of fish, of course in those days it was much different to what it is today. By this I mean it was a natural…

It’s nice to see that we have been getting some good reviews from the conventional media, both the Guardian newspaper and Improve Your Coarse Fishing magazine have rated us as the best angling site on the web. I don’t know about you but I’m never sure about the accuracy of reviews unless I know the…

At that time, as a boy of nine, I used to spend all my summer holidays with an Aunt and Uncle on a Shropshire farm mid-way between Shrewsbury and Much Wenlock. Almost fifty years on I cannot remember why, but I was given a fishing rod and reel and made plans to begin a new…

I am sure you will read elsewhere today of the manifestations of the Foot and Mouth outbreak, but for anglers the country over it will really come to mean something when they try to get to the river, lake or reservoir. We are still in the early stages of the outbreak, and maybe we should…

Articles by Geoff Maynard Geoff Maynard geoff@fishing.org Geoff Maynard Born in East London 1950, raised in Essex, now living in front of a screen in Surrey with his wonderful posh wife, his punk daughter, his three boys who are too big to insult, and a doggie called Macs. As a small child, Geoff caught his…

Most of the juniors in attendance found pole fishing to be their favourite method on the day with a combination of either meat and caster or corn and caster as feed and hookbait. Carp up to five pounds and bream up to three pounds fell foul to the youngsters baits and everyone seemed to really…