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For 2001, Fishing Adventures also offer Drive & Survive hoidays to 5 superb venues all offering exceptional carp fishing in wonderful locations.These vary from Lac Horre at 250 acres to select small waters such as Baudet. As we write, negotiations are in progress for another lake to come on line in the spring of 2001….

It can be a frustrating sport of ours, this fishing. There’s just so much to it isn’t there? No other sport can compare with angling for variety, and there lies the problem; so many fish and so little time. The way we cope with it is to specialise of course, whether sea, game or coarse,…

Surely the fish would move this morning! Swifts were hawking the surface, so it seemed a pretty good bet that there were insects hatching. No signs of moving fish as yet. Maybe the choice that I had made for the first drift was wrong. Should I move? No, I will give it to the island…

There was a big doubt after long time sponsors John Smiths pulled the plug on their sponsorship that the event might not be on this year. However, the tackle trade has rallied round, loads of anglers have entered the qualifiers, and competition organiser Dick Derrington has worked hard to ensure the weekend is on again….

Most anglers seem to have their favourite swims and the reasons for this are probably as varied as there are swims themselves. There is an uncanny, and almost unnerving connection between good swims and car parks for example, and I may well return to that theme later, depending upon the directions these thought processes take…