Haverhill Angling Centre

1. The Breakaway Impact Lead.For me this is the most significant advance in terminal tackle in a long time. Not only does the Impact lead have a streamlined shape, aiding casting, and excellent holding properties but more importantly it provides a near failsafe release of the hook every time. I have been using these leads…

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Anglers who use mackerel or Sandeel feathers on a regular basis know without telling that the dang things have a life of their own. Sorting out a set of tangled feathers is an experience best avoided, especially when the boat is heaving and tossing and you are in a hurry to get your feathers over…

Gravel pits that have been excavated in the traditional fashion are relatively easy to ‘read’. Plateaux, bars and islands, flooded trees and gullies all attract fish and fish attract pike. However, locating pike is not all about finding feeding pike and I would go as far as to suggest that you’ll do much better if…

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s get back to Ulan Bator, where I’d arrived after a hellish 28 hours on a train from Beijing, and where I met the man who’d set up my trip who now informed me that the river was a 12-hour ride away aboard a UAZ, a Soviet-built jeep, over…

The ferry took 1.15 hours to get there. But the weather was calm, with just a light breeze blowing. The weather for the weekend was forecast as being good, with average temperatures. It was, however, very overcast but warm. I had the happy experience of catching the first seatrout of the weekend, about 20 minutes…