For me, 2000 AD was the year of the bluefin tuna – you can read all about that in this sites archives. 2001, though, will be, I hope, the year in which I’ll take the first tentative steps toward catching the first broadbill by angling in the waters around these islands.
Unless we’ve been given a super-duper new trout rod for Christmas it’s likely most of us will be using a tackle set up similar to previous years. There’s something almost comforting about handling that familiar rod and line again, it’s rather like meeting up with old friends from whom you have been separated and are…
Rutland Water Rutland continues to fish well with a rod average of 2.65 for the week. Big fish showed on catch returns with Gary Mann of Belper in Derbyshire taking a splendid 8lb 2oz Rainbow. North Luffenhams Mark Schofield also got in on the act with a 6lb 4oz Rainbow followed by another one of…
Until recently, little was known of the Lake of Menteith as a pike fishery. Fred Buller in the Domesday Book reports a pike of 35 lb being taken in 1965 by Charles Cowan, but no further details are given. Most people will have heard of the lake because of its fame for being the only…
Seven years have passed since my family and I moved out of suburban Manchester into the wilds of rural Cheshire. At the time it seemed like a good idea – but I hadn’t bargained on the cost, and we are still recovering. However, it was a good move fishing wise; only ten miles from the…
It may have started in earnest for me when I saw early photographs of Dick Walker wearing a battered Trilby hat that looked as though it might have suffered from the previous ownership of several generations of seaside donkeys; so decrepit and misshapen was it. Clearly, I was easily impressed, because I took to wearing…