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You could do much worse than spend a little time exploring the numerous backwaters that line our larger rivers. With river fishing in the doldrums at the moment it doesn’t surprise me that backwaters have been forgotten about. Yet whilst you might struggle for a couple of bites on a cold carp puddle, you could…

The weather had warmed slightly – at least the daytime temperature was up to fairly normal April temperatures. On the other hand the night-time temperatures were amazingly cold. We had to scrape the ice off the car windscreen before we set off and it was well into the day before the frost on the grass…

I took a flight from Baltimore’s International airport for Orlando Florida. One of the great things about flying in the United States is the cheap air fares, compared with rip-off Britain’s air fares, high airport taxes and of course the very high tax on fuel. My destination was the town of Titusville on the east…

Although this article is in the game section of this magazine it includes pike fishing as well as trout fishing because , on Lough Mask, pike can be caught by all the game fishing methods i.e. fly , trolling and bait (worm or dead bait). The techniques are well covered by Mark Ackerley (Dead baiting)…

It is supposed to be the time when even the newest novice to fly fishing can catch fish hence the name “duffers fortnight”. Naturally imitation mayflies are normally used to great success during this period but there have been times when the trout appear to ignore my traditional mayfly imitation. Closer observation of the feeding…