Stanford Tackle Centre

After the enforced break we can all get back on the rivers and canals again and hopefully have some good sport. I know some people still take a three month break after March 14th but I reckon it’s time to completely review the close season across the board. The three month closedown is nonsense in…

Ash Rapids Lodge We are located on a beautiful Lake in the woods of Northwest Ontario and offer some of the best fishing available in Canada. Go Back In TimeAcross the vast forests and rocky terrain of the rugged Canadian shield spans a lake considered to be one of the most beautiful in the world….

Gary had done one day during the week on the same stretch and had caught a leash of pike, two doubles to over 16lb, and a jack. We arrived in the pre-dawn gloom and set off across the field, it was noticeably muddy as we trudged across and slowly the light strip of the river…

We have a calendar at work that gives you a ‘thought for the day’ on each page, some witty, some poignant, mostly naff. Today’s message warranted repeating though I thought, it read, “Give someone a fish and it will feed them for a day, give someone the knowledge to fish and you will feed them…

Fortunately this is the easiest of all the rings on a rod to replace, provided it hasn’t been done before by someone using epoxy or superglue. Professional rod builders always glue top eyes to the rod tip using a form of “hot melt” glue. Fuji make a small tube of hot melt glue in a…

If you are just happy going fishing, then the excitement of not knowing might be part of your enjoyment, but for the specimen hunter knowing the potential of your target venues is essential information. Yet, this doesn’t mean that you have to take the element of mystery out of your fishing. We never know everything…