Description: The float started to sink, but as if it had to much swan shot on it, started to reel it in and thers a 4lb common happily sucking away at the hook! I caught it on maggots.
There is a tendency to believe many techniques available to the modern angler are recent innovations. In fact a little research will reveal that there is much to be learnt from our forefathers. Over the summer I quoted from the Compleat Angler to illustrate that in Isaac’s day baits such as chopped worm and sophisticated…
For such trips I particularly favour a roving approach. Pockets are filled with tackle and a bait smock is stuffed with maggots and maybe a few slices of bread and some other baits. I go armed with a 14′ match rod and centre pin and the only other thing I have to carry is a…
The Tiburon is a clean and tidy Offshore 105 which is skippered alternately by Allan Bennett and Graham Hannaford who actually owns the vessel. Although Alís voice was breaking up on the limit of the mobile phone range, I cought enough of the call to understand that he would be in around half past five…
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Water levels are as high as they could be, insects are starting to hatch, the fish are in and growing used to the lake conditions, and the boats will shortly be brought over from their winter quarters. However, I am looking forward to far more than trout this year.I have spoken at length with Bob…
So before I get into this, I’ll say in advance, to encourage further reading, that the hours I spent in the far north of South Africa were some of the most memorable of my life. Here I found fishing, but here too I found proof enough for me that there really is more to fishing…