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There is an ever growing number of fisheries specialising in breaks for the holidaying angler in the UK but if you like to live on the wild side and have a bit of pioneering spirit then the world is your oyster. With air flights getting cheaper and cheaper you can spend your days fishing for…

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On the tidal and lower Thames it is the Chinese mitten crab that we are mainly concerned with, as to date I have not seen a crayfish in these waters. The locals joke that any signal crayfish that arrive in the section would soon be eaten by the Chinese mitten crabs.Chinese mitten crabs are a…

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)…

A UK record fish list is first, this is something that a lot of people have asked for in the past and comes to us courtesty of the British Record (rod caught) Fish Committee. I thought I knew my fish but there are species in there that I have never even heard of! New too…

Okay, so we have four or five waters on the short list of where we want to fish. We will have some information about the stock of fish from literature we have obtained or from talking to people in tackle shops or wherever. However the worst thing we can do is take other peoples word…