North Herts Angling Centre

We are trolling slowly homewards at the end of Major and Mrs. Bruce Kinloch’s two-day charter. It has been both a celebration of fifty years of marriage, and a quest to find a blue marlin for the Major, who – despite some forty years of service on the African coast in various civil positions –…

I was using a Carbon Fibre boat rod and Super Braid line, every movement of the sinker across the bottom could be felt with a delicacy and precision which I have got to say, I am very excited about. I clearly felt the Ling (as it turned out to be) pick the bait up. What…

In late December 1999, armed with a couple of telescopic rods and various lures, I travelled with a friend from Goa through to Kathmandu then back to Delhi overland for 7 weeks. It was only while I was sitting on the bank of the Babai river in western Nepal, surrounded by rhino dung and young…

I know from many years of fishing with these wooden or plastic imitations what a thrilling method of catching predatory fish this can be, but this upsurge of interest in plug fishing has taken me and many others by surprise.It is something very special when in the days first warm rays of sunshine you see…

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Rigging bait so that it swims in a most natural manner or flutters enticingly in the tide is a skill much developed in other more exotic parts of the world, but it seems to be skill which is relatively undeveloped in our waters. Reading some words of “wisdom” recently in a UK paper magazine about…