Sometimes, somewhere, nice things can happen. Christmas in the middle of summer. Three consecutive days of fishing in the middle of June, enough memories to sustain me through cold winters and grey skies when blue water is far away. A nice big-eye for Jack Reece The snooter at work on a quiet fish All hail…
The close season has been a frustrating one. The continuing Foot and Mouth crisis has kept most rivers out of bounds denying access for my traditional reconnaissance trips. I love to stomp the banks of the Kennet in the spring looking out for new swims and seeing the changes the winter floods have wrought on…
You don’t have to charter a fast offshore cruiser to get the best from Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. Most if not all the fishing camps and hotels running the length of the East Cape of Baja have their own boat fleets, swelled by hired privately owned boats. Needlefish Roosterfish Macfly These fleets include Pangas. These…
Unfolding, from a backdrop of hostile lunar landscapes and tropical swaying palm groves to where rainbows flicker and dance in the salty mist, floating above the relentless surf, creating an aura of mystery sure to rouse the spirit of adventure.Squadrons of patrolling pelicans glide the contours of the foaming surf and wheeling seabirds wait to…
Kay and I have just been over to Canada for our ‘fix’. That Thames carp on 2lb line 32lb A wet day and Kay with something out there They are beautiful fish Bud. He copped this 44lber early this year The hostess with the mostess. Tessa with one of her 40’s. 40lb 8ozs Tony Head…
I have talked a fair amount about various kinds of fishing and have not given that much time to the cogs of the wheel so to speak; to catch fish from the shore you are going to need a rod and reel and various bits of tackle! the SLOSH 30 reel rough ground fishing! FX3…
For me, 2000 AD was the year of the bluefin tuna – you can read all about that in this sites archives. 2001, though, will be, I hope, the year in which I’ll take the first tentative steps toward catching the first broadbill by angling in the waters around these islands. If you’re an angler…
As the setting sun hits it, you could be excused for believing that the paintwork of the canary-yellow catamaran tied up to the pontoon is responsible. But – it goes a little deeper than that.The catamaran Top Cat is owned by the Wrightsons Trust and is skippered by Steve Golden. So, with a name like…
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…
He was the Dick Walker of pre-war England, and as such was employed by Hardyís to endorse their high quality bottom-fishing rods and reels, which bore his name. The Hardy No.1 Wallis Avon was the Rolls-Royce of pre-war coarse fishing rods, and good examples now command high prices. The exquisite little Hardy Wallis centre-pin is…