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Trophy Room for Graham Coles Specie: pike Weight: 17.2 1b Location: river Avon near BristolI catch pike like this most weeks from a cut off the river Avon near Bristol. This one was caught on Sprat dead bait in still water 4ft deep. She was 17.2 1b and put back alive and well. The week…

These floats are fished double rubber style, which means the line passes through float caps that are positioned at the end of the float tip and at the base of the float. This float is normally fished either at the depth of the swim or slightly deeper. A number 8 shot is placed directly under…

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Articles by Henry Gilbey Henry Gilbey Henry Gilbey has been fishing since the age of seven and has lived in Plymouth for the last nine years; this is about the perfect base for a fanatical sea angler. He currently writes and photographs full time for various angling publications, as well as being the presenter of…

How else could we regard a government, (of whatever political persuasion) which ignores the existence of a 5 billion pound industry(government figures, not mine). An industry two or three times the size of the professional football game, generating income many times that of the commercial fishing industry – and yet refuses to accord that industry…

However as with most so-called “new ideas” in fishing, there is in all truth nothing new about paste baits. Nearly a hundred years ago, both my Great Grandfather and Grandfather were regularly using special pastes. All we have done is develop these ideas using modern ingredients, most of which were not readily available at the…