well, some of the time anyway!

As the water was still very cold I returned to the small, relatively easy estate lake to get a bend in the rod. I turned up on a mild afternoon. I parked the car and went to see what winter had done to the lake. All looked pleasant enough, the lake now totally free of…

Now, as I have more than a passing interest in the carp, my mate e-mailed me a picture of the latest biggy to be caught. Somehow the fish looked familiar, even though it’s current weight of nearly forty pounds was much bigger than anything I had ever caught. That night I got my old photo…

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…

For 2001, Fishing Adventures also offer Drive & Survive hoidays to 5 superb venues all offering exceptional carp fishing in wonderful locations.These vary from Lac Horre at 250 acres to select small waters such as Baudet. As we write, negotiations are in progress for another lake to come on line in the spring of 2001….

I never could work out what that meant. Maybe If you love someone, perhaps loosen the ropes a little and make sure they have fresh water could work. Then it struck me that I love pike and I set them free, but if I hadnt caught them in the first place Life is confusing isnt…

So what does that tell you? Simply that they have moved inshore to the feed-rich sandbanks to feed up and build their strength up for their Summer-long sojourn in the sunshine. If there is a ‘duffers fortnight’ in sea fishing, this is it. Sometimes catches of a hundred fish a boat are not unusual on…