Trentside Angling Centre

My fascination with pike fishing in the West of Ireland was first stirred by Fred Buller’s amazing Domesday Book of Mammoth Pike. Entries such as the account of the 46 pounder netted from Ballygary Bay enthralled me and I read them time and time again. If that book had never been written, I think the…

I have used this pattern for still water salmon with more than my fair share of success. At Hazelcopse fishery the salmon are regularly taken on dry flies throughout the year. In the Spring mayfly patterns like the yellow mayfly Woulff can be particularly deadly. They tend to rise best for the pattern towards evening…

‘ Nice tuna,’ he said. ‘Uh uh,’ I replied. ‘ I don’t think so.’I hardly get the words out of my mouth before Jeff throws the ju-ju sign at the bait on the long corner. Incredulously, within seconds, a long brown shadow appears behind it and like a consummate magician Jeff calmly says, ‘There she…

The build up started in earnest around mid November when I started noticing that my fishing time was getting less and less. So I counter-attacked and resolved to spend at least one day each week out on the bank. My good pal Pete Henton of the Bivvy Hospital arranged our first trip for weeks, “We’re…

One of my favourite tactics is to bait an area with literally everything I have left over in the bait cupboard. This is usually a mixture of groundbait, broken boilies and seeds and beans. This is a cracking method to use on lakes which are full of weed. What I try to do is find…

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