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As most of you will know, carp generally move around a lot less in winter than they do in summer. So the usual advice is to fish as close to them as possible, and keep your groundbaiting patterns, if any, very tight.

Back To The Waterside April can certainly be a month of change. This month will often start with very cold easterly or north easterly winds, clear night skies and frost, sometimes it even snows. A week later we can have some delightful spring weather with warm sunny days and light south westerly winds. Hopefully we…

But this time the quarry was about as far removed as it is possible to be from the princely salmon – this time I would be fishing in the sea, for skate. I had been invited up by my friend Davy to fish from his boat Catchalot, in the Sound of Mull. Reports were of…

There is a school of thought that says this is a shame, especially for youngsters, but I will sit on the fence and accept the fact that carp angling is big business and throughout January I will describe some of the essentials needed to move down the carp fishing road. I will cover Tackle, Baits,…

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The first session of the week came on a day of strong westerly winds that were cold to sit out in but in the shelter it was not too bad. I settled for the swim by the bush again as nothing could be seen in the murky margins and the pads were still yet to…