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Obviously, there is no great cut-off point, where you suddenly decide that in the next field you have moved from, say, the upper river to the middle river, and therefore a change of approach is needed. The transition from one area to another, and the change of approach that is required, is much more subtle…

Winter barbel fishing can also be fast and furious, if only for short periods. On many rivers stretches which are filled with anglers all summer long suddenly become deserted after the first frosts. All of these factors have meant that my barbel fishing year has rarely begun before September over the last few years. Apart…

There was no problem there, I enjoy short, sharp sessions, giving it all you’ve got, but I had got a bit fed up with carting all the gear around. For some daft reason, in the past I’d taken nearly the same tackle with me for a couple of hours in the evening, that I would…

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It is not my intention here to go through all the examples of mythical pike. Though these stories are slightly amusing I am not too impressed with them simply because they devalue the well documented examples which though not as big as the mythical pike are no less impressive for all this.At the end of…