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How many times have you seen anglers pile into the bar afterwards muttering things like “Oh it was far too – bright – windy – calm – hot – cold” (insert appropriate words and others unprintable!)Of course this may be a deliberate ploy to cover up shortcomings, after all what goes on above our heads…

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It happens every time I do it. Someone stares, grimaces and then asks the perennial question, “What on earth are you doing?” Before you jump to any conclusions, this scenario is normally acted out when I have a hacksaw in one hand, a lure in the other and I’m in the midst of surgically altering…

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The mean, no mercy ferocity of a deep water Conger Eel is the legend which generations of European sea anglers have had to measure their angling abilities against. It is one of the few fish in European waters with the ability to brutally heave your rod into a carbon cracking hoop, rip yards of line…

Now I wouldn’t go as far as that these days – not in Scotland anyway. But whenever I’ve been lucky enough to fish the Varzuga or the Ponoi in Russia’s Kola and hit one of those spells when I’m hooking 20 fish a day, I’ve felt that those old aristos had a point. Because the…