It wasn’t so easy finding out what to expect when shore fishing

The telephone shrilled loudly across the darkened room. I struggled to pull myself from the living room chair that had been my bed for the night in the attempt answer it. Another figure lay slumped half on, half off the sofa, male by the look of it. I breathed in stale tobacco ridden air as…

The fishing tackle business (in which I play an active part) really does talk some crap at times. Most of the marketing hype is just a little bit of showmanship but every so often a trend develops which can damage angling. The trend that particularly worries me at the moment actually has more to do…

Unless we’ve been given a super-duper new trout rod for Christmas it’s likely most of us will be using a tackle set up similar to previous years. There’s something almost comforting about handling that familiar rod and line again, it’s rather like meeting up with old friends from whom you have been separated and are…

Wherever salmon fly-fishing is practised throughout the world there are constant reminders of its birth and development in Scotland. Many traditional patterns of salmon flies were developed on the banks of Scotlands famous rivers – flies like Dunkeld (named after the small county town in Perthshire on the banks of the mighty River Tay and…

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The writer will tell us about seeing barbel glide from under the lush green canopy of weed and begin to feed on the clean gravel. He may also describe how he waits for the barbel to make an appearance and begin to mop up the scattering of sweetcorn he had introduced earlier. We northern anglers…