Duffy’s Fishing & Shooting

There was a stage at the end of last year when I was starting to wonder whether we’d ever get the chance to get back on the rivers again before the March 14th deadline. Three lots of extreme floods brought the Severn over the banks with a peak in November of around twenty feet above…

Presuming that you have found the fish then big rudd aren’t particularly difficult to catch. In all, there are four tactics which I commonly use for them, some pretty much text book stuff, others a little different. Never follow one method slavishly, each is designed to catch fish in certain circumstances and only those circumstances….

The new job took me to live in Ringwood on the banks of the Hampshire Avon, arguably Britain’s most famous fishing river, with a reputation for producing fish of specimen proportions. Pike are no exception to this rule and 30lb plus fish are landed each year. Like the Frome, the Avon is a fast flowing…

Whilst you can taste the change in the environment in April, it isn’t until May that the days stretch out and the first week or two of good weather puts in an appearance. The fishing can also be superb, and, with a multitude of species to aim for, it can be easy to become spoilt…

Last week the river was coming up fast and, along with most of the regulars, I decided against fishing the KDAA Wednesday match as it looked like being a ‘no hoper’. Only a few anglers bothered to turn up and the match was cancelled but what followed was quite a surprise to me when I…

If I were to talk of a water holding 3lb grayling and 2lb roach, where do you suppose I’d be referring to? Some expensive beat on the Test, Itchen or Dorset Frome maybe? Or perhaps further afield of my southern stomping grounds to somewhere like the River Teviot? Well none of these and if the…