Scunthorpe Fishing Tackle Centre

Until recently, little was known of the Lake of Menteith as a pike fishery. Fred Buller in the Domesday Book reports a pike of 35 lb being taken in 1965 by Charles Cowan, but no further details are given. Most people will have heard of the lake because of its fame for being the only…

I went into the same swim and once again went through the process of wading out to the front of the swim and casting around looking for the essential clear areas amongst the weed. This done it was back out with the PVA bags of pellets and crushed boilies. I had run out of Gardner’s…

“The catch of Irish Salmon is on a fast downward spiral. The total catch has fallen from an annual 1600 tonnes in the seventies, through 1152 tonnes in the eighties, to 630 tonnes in the nineties and lower still today. This trend will lead to the extinction of Irish Wild Salmon by the end of…

What has been described up to this point is a form of the Wallis underhand cast, but as I said, there are about a dozen variations. Instead of holding the lead to start, the underhand cast can be started with a free lead swung to the middle, left, or right of the angler. Instead of…

Fellow angling writer Jason Inskip offered a simple cure for my bone-fever: ‘Get yourself off to the Seychelles my boy.’ The Seychelles Islands lie in the Indian Ocean, just below the equator, about 1,000 miles off the East African coast. Amongst knowing bone-fisherman, these islands have an almost mythical reputation. I gave myself two weeks…

Tungsten, for it’s size, is much heavier than the more common brass type alloys used in gold bead patterns. This makes this pattern very useful, particularly when fishing fast flowing river for grayling. The nymph sinks virtually straight to the bottom where it lands.MaterialsHooks: short shank size 10 to 16. I have tied some on…