Articles relating to Game/Fly Fishing

Often today many anglers are deluded into believing that unless you own all the latest tackle and take it all with you on every fishing trip that somehow this will work some modern day magic, thus enabling more fish to be cought. This of course is total rubbish, part of the marketing mantra that more…

A soft bag with “just enough” tackle in a rig wallet, spare reel, sarnies, biscuits, mars bar and flask is all you really need. Most traces that an angler needs for boat fishing can be tied up from a small box of bits and a few spools of line en route to the wreck, reef…

Trophy Room for Stuart Turner Weight: 23 pounds Location: Surrey sandpit23 pounds exactly, my first twenty, and the first twenty to come out of the venue (Surrey sandpit). She took a drifted sprat, got weeded at 50 yards and I needed the assistance of a passing boat to get her out. Weight: 28 lbs 12…

Arriving at Vancouver airport at 5pm was no great hardship. This one was six feet six inches long. On the weight-for-length scale that makes it 137lb but it’s a bit on the slender side so call it 120ish. Bill gets stuck into a dinosaur In Britain this would be a fish of a lifetime. Here,…

I have used this static surface tactic on hot Summer evenings on many waters and found it particularly deadly on Meadow Tree Fishery at Hale in Cornwall, Dever Springs in Hampshire and Black Wool Farm in Sussex. All these waters are big fish waters, the fish responded well to the small suspender buzzer producing several…

To re-cap, there were three pairs of anglers fishing for what was hailed as sports smallest trophy – the Golden Maggot. Points were awarded for the number of different species you caught in a more or less sleepless 72 hours. And, to add to the fun, dirty tricks were allowed.I was partnered with Gareth Edwards,…