Buncrana Angling Centre

How many articles have been written on bait over the years? Probably enough to fill several books over! Yet, for those of us who have watched fishing develop over the last twenty years there has been an amazing swing in the way bait is written about. This change in our attitude to bait has, to…

My first month has been difficult to say the least with most venues I’ve been to suffering from “feast or famine syndrome”. On paper many of the match results look good but what the overall results don’t show is that a lot of competitors are struggling to catch. When a new season starts I think…

This year I started my pike fishing on September 1st on the River Trent. I had not fished the river seriously since 1989, but news that the pike had grown a bit bigger was enough to get me down there. No not thirties, but one or two over 25lbs was a considerable improvement over the…

Trolling Trolling is a huge subject, far too big to be covered in depth here, but I will attempt to go through the basics and leave the reader to find the many “wrinkles” for himself. It is a method which many people tend to use if they are fishing a water for the first time….

Each year some fish will die, and so it doesn’t take many years for there to be very few fish left. So the older and bigger you get, the less of your year class will be left. This does not always follow, some times conditions will lead to an exceptional year class being formed. An…

Rutland Water fish week 1076 (season 37375) returns 497 (9863) rod average 2.1 (3.7) The annual George Moore Memorial Rudder match was fished at Rutland Water on Saturday 20 July in a flat calm. Thirty-eight anglers took part and the two heaviest fish per boat where weighed in. 1st Ray Garrod and Mick Atkinson from…