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The big angler grinned his delight, slotted his rod butt into the belly pad, reeled hard to take up any slack line and lifted the rod to set the hook. The heavy thirty pound class rod heaved over into a carbon cracking hoop reaching its power thirty fathoms deep to pry the stubborn fish from…

Trophy Room for Sue Sutton Specie: Lake Trout Weight: 29 lbs Location: Lake Athabasca, Saskatchewan, CanadaI’m the cook at a fly-in fishing camp. This isn’t a particularly big fish for our lake – for most of the season our fishermen can reasonably hope to catch a laker over 30 lbs (and many will catch several…

For anyone with a hint of feeling for the lovely business of fishing, rod selection is a decidedly touchy-feely meeting, perhaps leading to a partnership that will last a life-time. A dedicated angler may spend more of his life holding his fishing rod, than he does holding his wife. Neither is a marriage that should…

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)…

Doh! Frustration! You see, I just spent the best part of two hours (alright, ten minutes) writing this piece only to lose it in a hard disk crash. And no, actually, cleverdick, I had not yet gotten around to saving it, let alone backing it up. Besides, as everybody knows very well, back-ups are for…

Some hints and tips – My worst scenario was a German who turned up in Madiera in the middle of the marlin season with a Silstar two-piece boat-rod and a Penn Longbeach loaded with 30lb dacron. He was adamant that he was going to catch his first marlin on ‘sporting tackle’. Unhappily, the first marlin…