The Fishing Lodge

Deep Forest Flyfishing adventure holidays in Sweden with Deep Forest. Sweden offers excellent flyfishing for salmon, sea-trout, trout, grayling, char and pike in beautiful and unspoilt wilderness surroundings. Here you can discover your own river stretch in the middle of the forest, or enjoy the company of anglers from all over the world in one…

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…

Besides the usual “buy me” stands and stalls from the big name tackle manufacturers, there were actually some very interesting items of fishing tackle from trendsetter companies which will cause the well established names to look to their laurels. On the other hand, maybe not, because many of us are acutely aware that most of…

Well funnily enough it’s quite appropriate for this piece for a variety of reasons. What I want to tell you about is a technique for pike fishing that I’ve been using for several years now. One which, like the old Spike Milligan song from which I took the title, is a little bizarre but which…

Bream [Species Menu] [Bream articles] Common name: Common bream Latin name: Abramis brama Record weight: Broken several times in 2001, currently the largest specimen is a fish of 18lb 12oz caught from Bawburgh lake in Norfolk. Distribution: Found throughout Europe and into the borders with Asia. Bream are an important commercial species in Eastern Europe…

Bait size fish have sought sanctuary in a dense weed bed. Nothing moves, except the boat as it moves slowly through the water, The only shade is from my long peaked cap. Optilabs polarised sunglasses help my eyes to seek and search deep into the dazzling shimmering water. I blink, then squint, can it be,…