Angler’s Services Ltd

It wouldnt harm anyone would it? Let’s face it, our 17,000 commercial fishermen are virtually redundant anyway and as for pleasure anglers, they could take up golf or tiddlywinks or anything else that would be more environmentally friendly. Our lakes and river systems would flourish, especially if all petrol/diesel boats were also outlawed. The north…

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…

Mike was 61 years old and without warning suffered an apparent aneurysm of the brain. Mike was a gentle person, and a good friend to all of us. Michael was a Life member of the Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF) after receiving the FFF Arnold Gingrich Memorial Award in 1996. Mike, with Christine as photographer,…

Please can you include the following details in the email when sending your Trophy Submission: 1. Name 2. Email 3. Address 4. Picture: Gif or JPG 5. Species caught 6. Weight 7. Where it was caught 8. 20 word decription about the experience

After my Father died when I was just 6 my angling education was taken up by my great-grandfather. The family had moved to Theale – a village 5 miles west of Reading in the Kennet valley. Grandad had lived in the village all his life and had been the village Bobby for a number of…

Anglers older than myself tell me that rudd were once common, yet nothing could be further from the truth now. Where they do survive, it is likely that you will find them in all the waters in a locality. It would seem that pure alkaline water is almost essential for rudd, and as the water…