D G Guns & Tackle

During the Summer months the wee small hours can take on a chill which belies the daytime temperatures and the perishing Winter months. well we wont talk much about them.Home comforts can turn an otherwise quiet night into a memorable experience. Bacon Butties at two in the morning spring to mind or a simple Pot…

But at least once for the season, it is a good idea to use that time constructively, especially if you have a few equally disappointed friends to help you. Making sinkers is not the most entertaining way of spending the day, but it can save you an awful lot of money and at least you…

On the tidal and lower Thames it is the Chinese mitten crab that we are mainly concerned with, as to date I have not seen a crayfish in these waters. The locals joke that any signal crayfish that arrive in the section would soon be eaten by the Chinese mitten crabs.Chinese mitten crabs are a…

They’re good to look at, fight tremendously well for their size and are enormously difficult to outwit, the all-round fish indeed but you don’t have to trek all the way across the Atlantic to find some superlative black bass sport. No, it’s here in our own European backyard.The stories go that it was General Franco…

Naturally with anything new or foreign there was terrific opposition to hemp leading to various bans. Stories of hemp drugging fish were still very common when I first started using the bait in the late 1950’s.When I started trotting the Thames with hempseed, I would buy a shillings worth of mixed cooked hemp with a…

Although one of the reasons for developing boilies was to reduce the number of nuisance fish caught, there is no doubt that even a two pound roach will have a go at a boilie if it has learnt that they make a good addition to it’s diet. Most carp anglers now use large quantities of…