Duffy’s Fishing & Shooting

Disinfectants Can Kill As I look back over the past few months, my thoughts go back to previous seasons when I would have had three or four sessions a week on the rivers and streams casting a fly or nymph to a brown trout, especially during May and June. This year it didn’t happen. I…

There are various reasons as to why this is happening in my opinion. Firstly poles have got better, lighter and cheaper in recent years. An angler can now buy a really good quality pole for a fairly modest outlay compared to a few years ago. Commercial carp fisheries have also helped to accelerate the growth…

Time for a rant. I’m sure that not everyone would agree with the implication in the title that fishing is so poor in these Isles. And before you start flaming those emails at me, I do know that there are several places here where the fishing is very good. Those places are however quite rare…

Specie: Mirror Carp Weight: 7.5lbsThought I’d send you another pic of a not so big fish this time! 7.5lbsfully scaled mirror. Caught on same day at same pond. I caught it on floating bread, with a lead running bomb.

The road from the bone dry low-veldt rises slowly at first, then more urgently, through 180° alpine hairpin bends that would sore test the unsober. The thorn scrub is left behind as lowland deciduous woodland appears. At a stop to admire the view, an African relative of the blackbird chuckles away, giving the moment the…

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