Canvey Angling Centre

Drift your boat into a feeding shoal of fish and it isn’t long before rod tips are nodding with hungry fish stripping hooks of their bait. Often these fish seem to have a charmed life as anglers continually strike to gain a hookhold, but it seems that the strike is against fresh air, only rarely…

Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…

Well, let me assure you that it is just not true; yes, spring may indeed herald the start of thornie fishing in some areas, but down here, if you really went for it, you could quite feasibly catch thornbacks all year round. In the areas that I fish I would go as far as to…

Leaving home around 7.30 p.m. on a mild grey day, prospects looked reasonably promising. I knew it couldn’t last, but was secretly hoping the weathermen had got it wrong. But I wasn’t going to vocalise those thoughts in case the ‘Weather Gods’ heard me. I was on the bank just before 9 a.m., and not…

This is something I have thought for nearly twenty years, and it is something that has moulded my fishing in this time. Way back then I was match fishing most of the time, but became increasingly frustrated that I was forced to fish at the worst time of the day. How many more, and bigger,…