Jim’s Discount Tackle

My body was tanned a nice mahogany colour from being at the waterside in the very warm sunshine day after day. The seven weight rod hooped over for probably the twentieth time in as many casts, so good was the fishing. But beware of the Queenfish, it has several spikes situated around its body and…

I served my apprenticeship through my local Shropshire match circuit and progressed to bigger and better things starting firstly with chub and barbel and eventually on to carp. Since then I have looked at very little else in the fishy world as carp are definitely “where it’s at”. I am a governor of The Carp…

If it hadn’t been such a sad and serious subject, I’d have had a good laugh over the sorry way that our Minister responsible for Britain’s fisheries, the Rt Honourable Elliott Morley , floundered when questioned on BBC 2 the other day about the North Sea cod problem and the new, limited, restrictions that have…

Tying a brightly coloured plastic bead to the end of your line before putting the reel away at the end of each trip might seem like a small, seemingly insignificant thing to do, but it does have a number of benefits beyond the easy way to find the start of the line……… which old bats…

My bank account was running on empty and I’d fallen out with my flexible friend. My job was on its last legs; I’d even lost sight of what work I was meant to be doing. I guessed my job title was sort of doormat cum acrobat cum diplomat as I seemed to spend my entire…

Rutland Water finished the season on a high with catch returns for the period 15 to 22 December showing that 222 anglers took advantage of the mild conditions and caught 682 fish. Giving an excellent rod average of over three. Fish had been seen moving in the surface all around the lake, close in, taking…