Gerry’s of Morecombe

History : The Dream Lakes complex consists of five well established ex – gravel pits, which were dug out and have been allowed to mature naturally after filling. The more well known Dream Lakes 1 & 2 need no introduction and have been well documented on the fantastic results that have been achieved on them,…

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Tope [Species Menu] [Tope articles] Common name: Tope Latin name: Galeorhinus galeus Record weight: Despite being found primarily in shallow water, the biggest tope tend to be found by boat anglers. This is reflected in the record weights with a huge female of 82lb 8oz holding the boat record, compared to a fish of 58lb…

In late December 1999, armed with a couple of telescopic rods and various lures, I travelled with a friend from Goa through to Kathmandu then back to Delhi overland for 7 weeks. It was only while I was sitting on the bank of the Babai river in western Nepal, surrounded by rhino dung and young…

The rivers are bare bones and algae is starting to build up, in fact conditions are looking a bit grim. It’s times like this when I fear for our rivers. Under conditions of normal flow levels a slight pollutant getting into the river would probably be diluted but in conditions of little flow we could…

Congratulations go out this week to Pat O’Reilly, angling writer, author, conservationist and first class fly fisher on being awarded an MBE for his services to angling and conservation. The New Year has started off with major flooding in most parts of the country, only the north west of England seems to have escaped the…