The Fly Box

Specie: Pike Weight: 32lb 8oz ‘Arnie’ 32lb 8oz Pike is the lake record at my local fishing venue. Arnie was lured by using herring dead bate. This also is my personal best! This was caught in one of the best EVER eight hour session’s you could imagine. I also landed 14 other pike all between…

Bream are found in very shallow water and often much closer to shore than we realise. The more noted marks for shore bream are the beaches at Brighton, Shoreham, Littehampton, and also the Isle of Wight, which offers both beach and rock fishing for bream. The rocks and breakwaters in the Channel Isles, especially Alderney…

News and Fishery reports First barbel 60 year old Stephen Ainscow of Ramsbottom Lancashire, a very experienced game angler for over thirty years and a member of Bowland Games Anglers Association wanted to catch a barbel so I invited him to join me for a couple of days on the river Teme. The first day…

A ling’s jaws have “state of the art” dentures. Needle shaped teeth designed for grabbing and not letting go, helped along by a wide powerful mouth. Their eyes are large, for good vision at depth and they are powerful swimmers. They grow big too, easily over 40lbs. The British record makes 59lbs, and commercially caught…

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Articles by Eric Edwards Eric Edwards Eric Edwards is forty five years of age, a logistics manager and lives in St. Helens, near Liverpool with his wife and three children. An angler since the age of six, he has specialised in catching specimen coarse fish for the last thirty years. Notable captures include a record…