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It was certainly a Who’s Who of the angling world. Mrs Sue Stone was a most honoured guest who was given a very warm welcome by everyone. Sue the wife of the Society’s first President, Peter, was presented with a cheque by Fred Crouch, the current President of the Society. We were also privileged to…

After the wet, mild conditions of the last few weeks we, in Suffolk, are now several degrees below freezing, with a constant shroud of freezing fog hanging over the East of the country. The river though looks to be in fine fettle. A bit of colour is still hanging in the water and despite the…

My wife and I had decided to spend a week on Costessy No3 (near Norwich) pit, she after some big bream, me in the hope of contacting one of the few big twenties that inhabiting this very hard carp water. In those days the water was gin clear and alive with natural food. Someone (I…

Baits though have changed beyond recognition to when I first chucked out a bait intended for an elusive carp. I had little to go on in those days; gleaning information from the few books that were around that gave little away. Let’s not forget that carp fishing was a secretive activity and the writers then…

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…

According to reports, backed up by fisheries staff, the reservoir was fishing well with trout being caught from a number of areas. Recent stocking had distributed fish all over the lake, so we hoped that it wouldn’t be the usual Llandegfedd trick of all thirty boats drifting into the dam just in front of the…