It all started a few years ago when I hooked and landed my first Catfish whilst targeting Carp in a local Stillwater. It was the best scrap any fish had ever given me and it only weighed 15lbs. At 43lb I thought it was big ..but they kept getting bigger (55lb).. ..and bigger (56lb)… ..and…
A waggler is any float that is attached to the line by only the bottom eye. As such, it is the most commonly used stillwater float and one that is regularly in use on many flowing waters. Straight peacock wagglers nsert peacock waggler Ultra sensitive crow quill insert waggler Bodied wagglers Bulk shotting used with…
How do you go to the toilet in space? About five years after Neil Armstrong took a giant leap for mankind, the great American public, dissatisfied with the state of its earthbound education, healthcare and transport systems, began to revolt against profligate spending on space exploration. The government, in its wisdom, decided to mount one…
This fishery is on the Upper River Kennet at Kintbury near Hungerford, Berkshire. It is traditional English chalk stream brown trout fishing at its best.Contact: Bob Bailey Phone: 01488 658905 mobile 0860 252717 Fax: 01488 658804 Web site: www.riverkennet.co.uk e-mail: info@riverkennet.co.ukAddress: East Lodge, Barton Court, Kintbury, Hungerford, Berkshire RG17 9SADirections: From Hungerford follow the A4…
I always have fishing of some sort or other passing through my mind each day, for it is difficult not to when one lives by a river, and searches it for new inhabitants every time one walks the banks. Just three years ago. Kay plays a mackerel shark Over 20 years ago in Ireland. Kay…
It was darn cold the other morning, the first real chilly day of the this Winter. Much as I dislike the cold, the thought did occur that this is just what is needed to drive the crabs into deep water so that the Flounder can get to our baits before the bait robbing crabs!Locally, the…
Well maybe I am a few years off the pace, but certainly in my neck of the woods big perch are back on the specimen hunter menu for anyone willing to set their stall out for them. This is particularly in my mind at the moment as I have been fishing for them over the…
If I were pushed to pick one favourite form of angling, fishing for salmon I suppose, and fly-fishing for them in particular, would probably be my first choice. our transport to the lodge Steve’s first chum salmon chum salmon’s teeth & well taken fly! Serva playing a salmon 4. moon over the mountains – Yetna…
Specie: Common Carp Weight: 22lbs 8oz Location: Sumner ponds, large lake at Barns Green, W. Sx. My friend Mr Terry Dawson and I had been method fishing for about 3hrs, when I decided to put two really black casters on the hook. Bingo! this little beauty, was hauled in.