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SEAWEEK: BrightLine – RUSS SYMONS by Russ Symons, Monday 3rd December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Boat, Exotic, Sea, Shore, Tackle, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs Articles related by species: Bream, Brill, Coalfish, Cod, Conger Eel, Haddock, Pollack, Shark, Sharks, Skate, Sole, Thornback Ray, Tope, Turbot, Whiting t has often been said that using these recently introduced brightly…

Loch Katrine – 8 miles long, around a mile wide, and surrounded by slopes clad in marvellous mixed woodland of oak, birch and rowan, backed by mountain peaks with mysterious Gaelic names; Beinn Chabhair (933m), Stob a’Choin (869m) and Ben Venue (727m), to name but a few. The scenery is literally legendary – immortalised by…

If it hadn’t been such a sad and serious subject, I’d have had a good laugh over the sorry way that our Minister responsible for Britain’s fisheries, the Rt Honourable Elliott Morley , floundered when questioned on BBC 2 the other day about the North Sea cod problem and the new, limited, restrictions that have…

If someone is not a fisherman it must be hard to understand the sorts of feelings that go through our minds and bodies at times like this. Lake Nasser is, I would guess, most freshwater fisherman’s Mecca, a dream water where you can catch crazy fighting fish bigger than you are – and be in…

The lateral line is also extremely well developed.Pike can pick up vibrations from tens of meters awayand home in to the source with great accuracy. The one sense which is often not appreciated in pikeis their acute sense of smell. All pike, butespecially those which grow large, feed to a largeextent on dead fish. If…

Whilst I could fish for trout in commercial rivers, this is a little too sanitised for me. Give me the overgrown stream in the middle of summer, a few chub or barbel and I will be happy. If it is not something that you are familiar with, then take the time to spend a little…