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On Friday 13th September 2002 it will be fifty years since the late Richard Walker caught his record common carp carp weighing 44lbs from Bernithan Court near Ross-on-Wye. Its now known as Redmire Pool. To celebrate the occasion I will be broadcasting an interview with the late Richard Walker describing the capture of his record…

Adventure fishing, is that what you’d call it? I certainly would ! I know that a lot of the readers here, like myself, are interested in learning; new skills, better spots, how to add a whole range of colours to their pallet.I was on an adventure trip in Taupo, New Zealand, and I was painting…

I once had an evening on a Southern chalk stream at the end of June. There were still the odd mayfly hatching but the legendary ‘duffers fortnight’ was over leaving the fish fairly full. However, some fish could still be seen taking the odd mayfly.As I walked around before setting up, I could not fail…

At the end of 1999 they appealed for anglers to join a shark tagging program to be known as 2000 UK Shark Tagging Programme. Now, as we enter 2001, the preliminary results of the first years tagging have become known.A staggering 1000 sharks of various species have been tagged.The 1000th tag was attached to a…

The other day, when I was fishing with the Poet LaureateÖ Now, if that isnít the ultimate throwaway line for any dinner party, I donít know what is. Anyway, Iíd said it before I realised that it might be taken as a bit of a name drop.It put one in mind of some other throw-away…

Having said that, using a little bit of watercraft learnt from fishing for other species in rivers or from carp fishing in stillwaters, the likely location of river carp becomes no more than common sense. Carp are carp no matter where they are so river carp will be located near snags and shelter. So look…