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Pouting [Species Menu] [Pouting articles] Common name: Pouting Latin name: Trisopterus luscus Record weight: A small inshore member of the cod family, the pouting is one of the most common fish around the British coast and can make up a large percentage of angler catches. Whilst most fish weigh under a pound, the boat caught…

The majority of the brown trout had been stocked as fingerlings as the reservoir filled in the early seventies. Although stocked as fingerlings we regarded them as “wild fish”.These trout appeared to spend most of their lives on the bottom which could be up to 90ft down. This called for lead core tactics with powerful…

Leaving aside the arguments about mixing braid and monofilament on the same boat it has become evident that the serious boat angler is (a) becoming fed up with fishing with several pounds of lead to hold bottom when the use of braid will cut the sinker weight in half and (b) anglers are becoming more…

Not that I for one minute expected a bite. The deep cavernous banks of the river Teme had almost disappeared; drowned by the water from 3 days of continuous rain as the water raced from the Welsh hills towards Worcester.In Worcester an hour before, I had purchased a day ticket for the river. I had…

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In late December 1999, armed with a couple of telescopic rods and various lures, I travelled with a friend from Goa through to Kathmandu then back to Delhi overland for 7 weeks. It was only while I was sitting on the bank of the Babai river in western Nepal, surrounded by rhino dung and young…