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Ash Rapids Lodge We are located on a beautiful Lake in the woods of Northwest Ontario and offer some of the best fishing available in Canada. Go Back In TimeAcross the vast forests and rocky terrain of the rugged Canadian shield spans a lake considered to be one of the most beautiful in the world….

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

Thankfully the likes of Lefty Kreh, Pat O’Reilly, Jim Schollmeyer, Mark Bachman and other fly fishers, both in the UK and the United States, helped me to get rid of some bad casting habits. For a hundred years or so, fly fishing writers discussed casting with the aid of the hands of a clock, they…

Anglers who use mackerel or Sandeel feathers on a regular basis know without telling that the dang things have a life of their own. Sorting out a set of tangled feathers is an experience best avoided, especially when the boat is heaving and tossing and you are in a hurry to get your feathers over…

Catfish [Species Menu] [Catfish articles] Common name: Wels catfish Latin name: Silurus glanis Record weight: Weight recognised by the British Record Fish Committee is 62lb caught by Richard Garner from Withy Lake in Bedfordshire in 1997. This fish is unlikely to be ever beaten as although several much larger fish have been caught the record…

There’s Murphy – whose family live there and whose guests we are – Dicky, BG and me. The Headford and District Anglers hold their annual competition on the Lough at this time of year and we were determined to take part. We planned our arrival for the day before the competition so that we’d have…