floating bread, with a lead running bomb.
Grass carp [Species Menu] [Grass carp articles] Common name: Grass carp Latin name: Ctenopharygodon idella Record weight: In recent years no other record has been in as much danger as the grass carp. With several huge fish dotted around the country, the record has been broken on several occasions in recent seasons. The latest angler…
They were made very popular by Bristol match ace “Topper” Haskins who has used these floats to dominate matches on the Bristol Avon. However, Topper has moved on to using polystyrene bodies with his crow quill avons whilst I have stuck to the more traditional balsa wood bodies. Unlike Topper I have not yet mastered…
Theyíve been fact finding rather more than intensive fishing and Iíve notched up something like eight or nine thousand miles travelling in my search for really good waters. Iíve travelled with two Spanish friends and theyíve shown me all their secrets, built up painstakingly over many years. This being the case, I know youíll pardon…
A quick look in my local newsagents reveals around a dozen. I reckon that with the internet and regional magazines there are probably over thirty. That is around four hundred articles each month, something like FIVE MILLION words each year! Add to that catch reports, match reports, venue guides, editorial, and all the other bits…
Most stillwaters controlled by clubs that also had rivers on their books shut up shop a couple of weeks before 14 March and are not due to open before 1st June at earliest. It was the clubs that usually open their waters in spring that had the hardest decision. Obviously if the lakes were in…
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