Amble Angling Centre

Naturally with anything new or foreign there was terrific opposition to hemp leading to various bans. Stories of hemp drugging fish were still very common when I first started using the bait in the late 1950’s.When I started trotting the Thames with hempseed, I would buy a shillings worth of mixed cooked hemp with a…

Pike fishing is a fairly well explored subject. After all, the choice of methods is fairly limited. If you are one the of the huge majority who bank fish, and who fish with baits rather than lures then what is there that is new? Well, there are still a few little wrinkles that can catch…

Sweetcorn has become a very popular bait for many species of fish. It is cheap, clean and easy to use. However as its popularity has increased, fish of many waters have learnt to associate its colour and smell with danger. Fish have been known to bolt out of a swim at its very sight in…

As we crept slowly across the flat in about 15 inches of water, we could see tailing bones rooting about in the soft bottom or around the mangroves, for crabs, shrimps or any other food item they could find. After about eighty yards Chuck whispered “Good bone Martin at fifty feet 11 O’clock” However hard…

So okay, what the hell am I doing? Simple – I’m normally changing a lure from a proven fish-raiser into a proven fish-catcher, and that difference is what lure fishing is all about. I know for one that I would rather go home after a trip and state I’ve caught 12 fish out of sixteen…

There are places, and plenty of them, where you can catch as many carp in an afternoon as people used to catch in a season. These aren’t small fish either – I’ve only today heard of an angler who caught nine 20 pounders in a 24 hour session. Tackle has improved, and so has rig…