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Duncton Mill Duncton Mill is one of those special places you must visit again and again. Duncton Mill is one of those special places you must visit again and again.This 70 acre, immaculately kept estate nestling in a spectacular setting at the foot of the South Downs offers trout fishing, B&B and self-catering cottages.The eight…

Usually there is a few minutes silence as the forearms take the strain, then the eyeballs begin to bulge and the cry goes up for a butt pad before his wedding tackle takes a pounding.It’s awesome when it happens for the first time, the line tightens, confidently the slack is taken up, reeling quickly to…

The depth of water was varying between 70 and 80 metres and most of us were fishing superbraid lines because in this depth of water the use of braid with its ultra thin diameter enables sinkers half the weight of those used with comparable breaking strain nylon monofilament lines to be employed. Which naturally means…

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…

AIMS AND OBJECTS The Committee exists to recognise and publish record weights of both fresh and salt water fish caught on rod and line by fair angling methods in the waters of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and aims:o To provide an adjudicating body to which marine and freshwater anglers may…

In the relative cool of the early morning Arno and I waded silently across the glassy shallows of the lagoon, eyes peeled for sting rays under our feet, and bones shadowing into range. Away from the surf on the outer reef, it was deathly quiet. Anything more than a whisper would have been quite out…