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If you never fish for cod then their appeal may be hard to fathom, but for those driven to fish for these golden flanked hoovers of the sea, then the next few months can be an exciting time. Your own regional season may be long or short and it may well be a success or…

Robert Johnson of Washington State sent me an E-mail recently saying how he enjoyed my recent feature on fly fishing for carp, having seen the pictures of the twenty pounders he is intending to try the method himself. As Robert said “We have millions of big carp in the Columbia river and its backwaters”. Having…

It’s a swim that has thrown up a few good catches recently and when I got to it I could see why. The swim in question is only around three and a half feet deep, running over gravel, and quite pacy. This time of year I hate drawing sluggish river swims, as all the fish…

Some entrepreneurial individuals have taken their own designs and begun to make them commercially. Some R/C boats on the market can best be described as toy remote controlled boats with an adaptation for anglers, but they do have the advantage of being quite cheap. Others have been designed from the ground up (or is it…

Dreamstream Newzealand Dreamstream Newzealand“Roanoke” RD2TurangiLake TaupoNew Zealand.Tel: ++64 (7) 386 6393Fax: ++64 (7) 386 0660 Email: dreamstream@fishing.co.uk For decades New Zealand, or Aotearoa as the native Maori’s call it, has been known as a fisherman’s mecca, the “Anglers El-Dorado”. For decades New Zealand, or Aotearoa as the native Maori’s call it, has beenknown as a…

Articles by Russ Symons Russ Symons Russ Symons has been an angling Photographer/Writer for over thirty years, the last twelve of which, writing about and photographing the sea and its fish being his full time occupation. Progressing from a black and white darkroom in the attic of his Plymouth home, to the exacting colour requirements…