Acomb Fishing Tackle

Roddy Hays is currently skippering a big-game boat in the Azores, something he’s been doing all over the globe for the past ten years or so. By the miracle of modern technology (i.e. hand written, faxed to wife, typed then emailed!!) Roddy has sent in this, the first of a series, of big-game articles for…

Catfish [Species Menu] [Catfish articles] Common name: Wels catfish Latin name: Silurus glanis Record weight: Weight recognised by the British Record Fish Committee is 62lb caught by Richard Garner from Withy Lake in Bedfordshire in 1997. This fish is unlikely to be ever beaten as although several much larger fish have been caught the record…

Following on from my previous article on “fly rodding for carp” here I intend to focus on the surface and subsurface tactics I have used in various circumstances to deceive fish – well, some of the time anyway!

Although current wisdom says that these are line bites and fish just tugging at the line this is often far from the case. Twitches can also result from fish feeding very confidently and anglers must judge what is going on in their swims to get the best from the situation. If you think that you…

That’s the bad news but the better news is that it will not last forever and our fishing WILL return to normal eventually. This is more than can be said for some sectors of the farming industry who have lost everything. The paramount news is that in unaffected areas, for example the Northern Highlands of…

Most anglers seem to have their favourite swims and the reasons for this are probably as varied as there are swims themselves. There is an uncanny, and almost unnerving connection between good swims and car parks for example, and I may well return to that theme later, depending upon the directions these thought processes take…