For speed fishing on Chew, when it is right, you cannot beat the dries

I know that I am not alone in this, so it is a good time to talk about the welfare of our pike and zander stocks. Although often portrayed as ferocious predators, once on the bank these fish are amongst the most delicate you will ever come across. Big pike and zander are rare creatures….

Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…

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…

Peg 84 on the Quarry Park section of the Shrewsbury match length saw me take first place with 12.14.0 of roach and dace on the waggler. I must admit I didn’t really fancy the draw when I pulled it out of the bag as there were a lot of good anglers on what I thought…

For the past few years, the main events on the circuit have been the “Hardy” competition and the “Peregrine” competition. There has also been the Welsh Water event, but it was always going to be difficult to see that one going ahead with all of the cutbacks in the Welsh Water Company. This season it…

You’ve been at the lake for two nights now. The fishing has been hard, but a few have been coming out and you’ve seen some on the bank so you feel you’re still in with a chance, even though you’ve been fishing at this particular venue for three months now without a fish. You’ve spotted…