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Unfortunately, due to the easterly wind, the area where the carp had been the week before in the calm of a westerly breeze was now rippled and cool and I could see no further than a couple of inches into the water. As I walked around the lake the male swan made his way towards…

This is something I have thought for nearly twenty years, and it is something that has moulded my fishing in this time. Way back then I was match fishing most of the time, but became increasingly frustrated that I was forced to fish at the worst time of the day. How many more, and bigger,…

Articles by Eric Edwards Eric Edwards Eric Edwards is forty five years of age, a logistics manager and lives in St. Helens, near Liverpool with his wife and three children. An angler since the age of six, he has specialised in catching specimen coarse fish for the last thirty years. Notable captures include a record…

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In fact, it had a devastating effect – I was unable to visit any of the rivers that I normally fish for roach, as the various authorities forbade access, whether or not there was any livestock in the area. I can understand a need for caution but I have to say that in some cases…

August 9th saw me back at the Island lake for my usual dawn to dusk session. I set up in the south west corner, as a north easterly wind had been forecast. I was now fishing the particle on both rods, though I was still keeping up the baiting with the HNV, putting some in…