Judd’s of Ruislip

In this event anglers draw their boat partners and set out to fish totally unaware of whom they are in a team with, and only on their return to the lodge at the end of the competition do they find out their teammates. This year the teams were made up of six anglers – five…

Salmon are scarce (aren’t they always?) the best of grayling is almost over and the brown trout season has not yet begun. Happily in my neck of the highland woods, it can still be classed as a good fishing month for February 12th sees the start of the sea trout season. On Orkney and Shetland,…

The first session of the week came on a day of strong westerly winds that were cold to sit out in but in the shelter it was not too bad. I settled for the swim by the bush again as nothing could be seen in the murky margins and the pads were still yet to…

Articles by Russell Symons Russell Symons Russ Symons has been an angling Photographer/Writer for over thirty years, the last twelve of which, writing about and photographing the sea and its fish being his full time occupation. Progressing from a black and white darkroom in the attic of his Plymouth home, to the exacting colour requirements…

My first month has been difficult to say the least with most venues I’ve been to suffering from “feast or famine syndrome”. On paper many of the match results look good but what the overall results don’t show is that a lot of competitors are struggling to catch. When a new season starts I think…

Can you remember another six months when four records fell? Or a time when so many records looked vulnerable? Barbel, bream, carp and tench have all tumbled in the first half of this year. And it looks like a case of when rather than if for at least four other species. So what’s going on…