A sure sign that Winter has beaten a welcome retreat is when the soft Spring sunshine spotlights the first Plaice of the season rising toward an eagerly extended landing net. It is a certain omen, if you like, that Spring has finally banished the gloom of winter, the uplift in spirits brought by the start of a new season has begun to work its annual miracleYahoooo!
Nothing beatsseeing a fish chase a muddler as you strip it across the surface. Oftenthe fish will be half out the water and it will still want to eat your muddler. I anchored the boat some twenty five to thirty yards from the foamswept shore line. Having cast the muddler some seventy feet I started…
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The river has just burst its banks again after torrential rain over the last few days. This morning it looked like my garage was going to be flooded again but the levels are dropping now and we can see the road again! It’s really frustrating right now. I moved to Bewdley to get nearer to…
If you’re an angler and saw the movie ‘The Perfect Storm’ then I’d bet that you came away, as I did, with two abiding images. The first would be of the longliner tk, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, climbing the glassy, impossibly steep, underside of a huge swell and, inevitably, being flipped over and swallowed by…
Enthused by a wonderful couple of days in March at Kiwayu, of the coast of North Kenya, when we had had fine sport taking Koli-Koli (aka Golden Trevally) on the fly, as they in their turn preyed upon the shoals of sardines, I dared to suggest to Belinda that we once again ventured down to…
Specie: chub Weight: ? Location: nr Doncaster The Chub and the Barbel were both caught on the same mission. They do like luncheon meat! What weight do you think they are, as I didn’t have any scales about as I was travelling light moving up and down the river with the perfectly visible fish. They…