I read, or at least glance through, most of the angling publications on the market, and one of the things I read most often are the vivid descriptions of spotting fish in midlands and southern chalk streams.
The big angler grinned his delight, slotted his rod butt into the belly pad, reeled hard to take up any slack line and lifted the rod to set the hook. The heavy thirty pound class rod heaved over into a carbon cracking hoop reaching its power thirty fathoms deep to pry the stubborn fish from…
My rod will be already set-up with 4lb line and size eight hook. The landing net will be set-up and folded down. Everything else will be ready in my little pack. It is much easier to approach fish from below, so if there is time I will walk to the bottom of the stretch I…
Now that I am retired from teaching, I produce most of my own floats. This not only saves money but is also a hobby within a hobby. Personally, I get a lot of satisfaction out of making my own floats and catching fish using them.The pole float that I am going to make this month…
Walsall based Terry, founder of Angling Link which became the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA), joins Tessa Sanderson OBE, Gillian Clark MBE, and more than one hundred other British athletes attending a special reception at the City of Manchester Stadium on Saturday 15th June. The reception is celebrating the recent success of Sport England’s Sporting…
Whilst you can taste the change in the environment in April, it isn’t until May that the days stretch out and the first week or two of good weather puts in an appearance. The fishing can also be superb, and, with a multitude of species to aim for, it can be easy to become spoilt…
Lately I have been fishing the Skerries for the early Plaice, and the rough ground off the back of the Hands Deep about 10 miles south of Looe in Cornwall. Drifting a boat over this sort of ground whilst fishing for flatfish, whiting, cod and so on, is a superb method of finding the fish….