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You’ve been at the lake for two nights now. The fishing has been hard, but a few have been coming out and you’ve seen some on the bank so you feel you’re still in with a chance, even though you’ve been fishing at this particular venue for three months now without a fish. You’ve spotted…
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Back To The Waterside April can certainly be a month of change. This month will often start with very cold easterly or north easterly winds, clear night skies and frost, sometimes it even snows. A week later we can have some delightful spring weather with warm sunny days and light south westerly winds. Hopefully we…
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…
Bull huss [Species Menu] [Bull huss articles] Common name: Bull huss (nurse hound, smooth hound, greater spotted dogfish) Latin name: Scyliorhinus stellaris Record weight: The largest member of the dogfish family found in British waters. The record bull huss boat record is 22lb 4oz and the shore record is 19lb 14oz. Distribution: Primarily found around…
The biggest mistake normally sees the wrong choice of float size for a given situation. In addition many anglers, especially newcomers to the sport, use the wrong shotting patterns down the line. When selecting a waggler I always adopt a very simple equation. That is sensitivity versus buoyancy. I always ask myself “What am I…