Cowans Law Trout Fishing & Country Sports

Blood knots and Uni knots are the most useful and widely used to tie on hooks and swivels. When making a Sliding Leger using a tubular boom or slider such as the Zip slider or Knotless heavy Slida, the final knot to the hook length comes under constant attrition from the boom because of the…

But I do have several photo’ albums, and occasionally I glance through them and remember much of my lifetime of angling. Just one picture can bring back so many memories, as the brain’s ability to wander from thought to thought multiplies that one picture into many others. Flashbacks!For example, I found a picture of my…

Although the conditions are quite different between the bottom and the surface, much of the fish’s behaviour when confronted with a ‘suspicious’ bait on the top or on the bottom (the refusal, the aborted take, the snatch, and the confident suck) must be almost the same. Which all goes a long way towards teaching you…

Articles by Dave Steuart Dave Steuart Dave Steuart wrote his first article 53 years ago. He was asked to be lead writer of Anglerís Mail when it first appeared, and did so until it was until it was sold to IPC. He then wrote regularly for Angling magazine until that was sold. About that time…

Specie: pike Weight: 50lb Location: south of Ireland This pike was caught on a trolled Rapala Supershad and 50lb braided line towards the end of February 1998. The location was an undisclosed lake in the south of Ireland. It weighed in at 29lb 8oz and is my personal best.

I was eventually seduced by one of those luscious brochures put out by Angler’s World Holidays, the Chesterfield specialists in this sort of thing. Their Swedish operator Top Ten Angling had some wonderful places on offer, so I settled down to choose a venue.That’s where the problems started, because they all sounded amazing; too good…