H & H Fishing Adventures South Africa

Although this article is in the game section of this magazine it includes pike fishing as well as trout fishing because , on Lough Mask, pike can be caught by all the game fishing methods i.e. fly , trolling and bait (worm or dead bait). The techniques are well covered by Mark Ackerley (Dead baiting)…

Sunbury lies at the start of the M3 motorway, from which you can actually see part of the school that I taught in for so long. Taking the Sunbury turn-off from the A3 or A316 takes you into the main roundabout at Sunbury Cross, take the sign for Lower Sunbury and the river. This is…

We all know that barbel are very much the dish of the day over here in Britain and we also realise that there are probably more barbel anglers than there are fish at present! This means that most British barbel fishing tends to be pressured or very exclusive. Theres precious little scope for anybody who…

The depth of water was varying between 70 and 80 metres and most of us were fishing superbraid lines because in this depth of water the use of braid with its ultra thin diameter enables sinkers half the weight of those used with comparable breaking strain nylon monofilament lines to be employed. Which naturally means…

‘WHOAA !!’ shouted Jeff at the top of the ladder beside me and I whipped around from peering into the fishfinder. ‘LONG CORNER !!’ and he was gone down into the cockpit. I saw the fish clearly then, bill out of the water, the fish acting like a sailfish at a teaser. The fish faded…

A supreme predatorApart from being so majestic to look at, the bass is a real predator that relies on its inbuilt senses to home in on available food sources; the shore angler may have visions of a large solitary bass moving up a gully to search for crustaceans, whereas a boat angler perhaps chases the…