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Specie: Lake Trout Weight: 29 lbs Location: Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, Canada I’m the cook at a fly-in fishing camp. This isn’t a particularly big fish for our lake – for most of the season our fishermen can reasonably hope to catch a laker over 30 lbs (and many will catch several over 30; the camp…

The wind was getting back to a westerly so I wondered if the carp might have moved back up the lake, into the channels between the big weed beds. I raced down the hill eager to get my first look at the lake for 4 days.Despite the wind and rain I still did not like…

The potential of S. Africa as a big carp destination has already been proven but so far we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. Bruce Johnson of Eagle Fishing Safaris has been working hard behind the scenes to locate waters that will produce big carp consistently. Original plans, back in 2000, to develop…

Watching a seven or eight foot long fish launch itself ten feet into the air after a blistering hundred yard run does tend to set the adrenaline flowing. And I can confirm that complacency still doesn’t set in even after it happens several times in the same week. When a fish this size is greeted…

I can’t believe how bad the weather is for July. At this time of year we often find our rivers low and clear but the Severn right now is running about two feet above summer normal level and quite coloured. Talking to other anglers around the country it seems a nationwide thing and even the…

Last week the river was coming up fast and, along with most of the regulars, I decided against fishing the KDAA Wednesday match as it looked like being a ‘no hoper’. Only a few anglers bothered to turn up and the match was cancelled but what followed was quite a surprise to me when I…