Duffy’s Fishing & Shooting

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…

It’s just over six hours flying time from Gatwick. There are flights in and out every Friday to Banjul, fares are relatively cheap, as is accommodation, and you’re pretty much guaranteed good weather outside the main rainy season through August and September. More to the point the fishing can be awesome with not just a…

Tench are at their best from early April through to late June, this period being narrower or wider, or the time band shifting either earlier or later in the year, according to the conditions at the time. If that period is particularly mild then the tench will begin feeding earlier and will spawn earlier, or…

My route led me around the southern shores of lake Vättern. Well, that’s what it’s called, but to call this huge body of water a lake is to do it no justice, because Vättern is really a great freshwater sea, with beaches, currents, a climate all its own, and a considerable fishing industry. They say…

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