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Hunt Extraordinaire Introducing the fly fishing destination for the New Millennium: Let Hunt Extraordinaire introduce you to that corner of the world that is fast becoming the ultimate fly fisher’s destination – Southern Africa. The Southern African sub-continent offers an unmatched wilderness experience. The natural beauty of the region is surpassed only by the diversity…

Gravel pits that have been excavated in the traditional fashion are relatively easy to ‘read’. Plateaux, bars and islands, flooded trees and gullies all attract fish and fish attract pike. However, locating pike is not all about finding feeding pike and I would go as far as to suggest that you’ll do much better if…

It is an indisputable fact that you can only catch the fish that are in front of you. Yet, the more I learn the more I realise that fish rarely stay in front of you for very long! It was Graham Marsden who popularised the idea of patrol routes. A man ahead of his time…

Okay, so we have four or five waters on the short list of where we want to fish. We will have some information about the stock of fish from literature we have obtained or from talking to people in tackle shops or wherever. However the worst thing we can do is take other peoples word…

Roach [Species Menu] [Roach articles] Common name: Roach Latin name: Rutilus rutilus Record weight: 4lb 3oz taken in 1990 by R. N. Clarke from the Dorset Stour. Distribution: Found throughout England, Ireland, Wales and Southern Scotland. Very common across the whole of Europe, where several sub-species and closely related species are also to be found…

The Falklands represent all that is good about fishing wild places and the lessons learnt there can be applied anywhere.I am a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force. I came to be there on a four month tour on a mountain radar site on the north west tip of the West Falklands at a place…