Brian Dean Tackle

Stillwater PerchIt may seem strange to choose perch as a species for targeting in December, but there is a very good reason for this. Perch continue to feed through the winter and they have a habit that helps us to locate the bigger fish much more easily than we can during the warmer months –…

Plug fishing is taking off big time in the UK and, as many of you are finding out, good plugs are the only ones that work, but they don’t come cheap. So it pays real dividends to look after them. Caring for plugs is simple, after they come back from a days fishing lay them…

British Disabled Angling Association officials put their call for a more inclusive and fraud free concessionary licence for disabled people to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Elliot Morley MP., at a specially arranged meeting at Whitehall. With the backing of the Environment Agency, the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) delegation of Director…

There is one essential fact that you need to know about fishing a deep sunk wreck for a big black conger eel, that fact is that your bait has to be on the bottom!! A few feet up and you are wasting your time. So the rig has to be capable of handling a heavy…

I had been in soulful mood, worrying about the state of our countryside, about foot and mouth disease and the lack of a suitable water for a traditional start to the coarse season with a few brothers of the angle. With only a few weeks to go, the little pond I had booked in Bedfordshire,…

Most anglers seem to have their favourite swims and the reasons for this are probably as varied as there are swims themselves. There is an uncanny, and almost unnerving connection between good swims and car parks for example, and I may well return to that theme later, depending upon the directions these thought processes take…