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May nineteen-seventy-eight. All arrangements had been made to leave work at 4pm and drive straight down the M4 to board the ferry at Swansea. We were off to fish Ireland’s river Blackwater for salmon. one of several perch caught on fly the river Blackwater from Fermoy Bridge Me wading the fast & slippery Lugg Pool…

Type of rod To this end, I would recommend a powerful waggler float-rod as the first rod. These rods have a progressive action that aids casting and acts as a shock absorber when playing a fighting fish. Another factor in my choice is the increase in carp stocks on many fisheries to the extent that…

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The atmosphere about the place was difficult to describe. The motley bunch of carp anglers who gathered there at weekends all interpreted the strange feel of the lake in a different way. Sometimes it seemed to resent you; at others it was happy to see you, and on some occasions showed its sense of humour…

7/23/02 / 5:18 AM / cloudy / 84 / 74% / Wind: calm @ 0 mph / 30.12 rising / Conditions at Canaveral’s 20 mile buoy : air temperature 79, wind: southeast @ 2 knots, seas 1 feet @ 9 seconds, water temp. 81 / Ocean temp. 83 @ Cocoa Beach Pier / Tides @…

My mix for flatties (flounders) was very simple but effective and consisted of 1 tin of Pilchards, 1kg of medium Brown crumb and a couple of handfuls of sand. My pal and I knew what each ingredient did in the overall mix, the crumb was the carrying agent for the Pilchards which in turn acted…