Scotties Fishing Tackle

The week started with my third teach in for juniors at Moorlands Farm. We had around twenty-five kids turn up and all the kids caught well as the day went on. Tangles were still much in evidence though and as quick as I could make rigs up there was someone else waiting with another destroyed…

In the summer months the brook is often just a mere trickle but with all the extra water we’ve had lately it has been transformed into a fish holding haven with all types of species seeking refuge from the main torrent that has been the Severn recently. I fished a swim just back from where…

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Thorpe Park Ski Lakes Mixed coarse fishery where Personal Best’s come true. Day ticket water open from March 15th to November 1st, 2000. Probably one of the best untapped specimen lakes around. The ski lake is just under 100 acres of water next to M3 at Chertsey and until October 1999 had not seen many…

I no longer feel the need to keep secrets, a trait that resulted in me being refused admission to the Wimbledon PAC region. So during a recent lure fishing session on the Thames I babbled inanely at Neil Depledge. He listened to my tales without a whimper and resisted the temptation to jump out of…

In his own words Barrie preferred to pre-bait when the pike were off feed (presumably hoping it may bring them on to feeding). Writing on the same subject, this time in 1985 (Big Pike, Rickards, A&C Black 1986) and with the benefit of 15 years further experience Barrie was in no doubt of the value…