Mark II Angling

Carp [Species Menu] [Carp articles] Common name: Carp Latin name: Cyprinus carpio Record weight: The current record fish is affectionately known as ‘two-tone’ and is slowly edging towards 60lb. This lovely fish lives in a large gravelpit in Kent called Conningbrook. The current (September 2001) record weight for this fish is 59lb 7oz captured by…

The “Queen of Rivers” River Namsen, Norway River Namsen is regarded as the most productive salmon river in Norway’s southern part, providing 25 – 30 tonnes of rod-caught salmon annually. River Namsen is also particularly famous for its big salmon – and throughout the season (1/6 – 31/8) there is always the change of catching…

After telling you all last month at my spectacular non-event at the newly formed ‘Loggies Lake’, I thought I would re-live this weeks adventure. Andrew had cried off due to ‘pressure of work’; he really ought to learn the value of prioritising, but as he says, “All work and no play keep the debt collectors…

We went to Malindi, and, of course, the reason that Im writing about it, is because of the fishing. We were quite lucky with the weather because the rainy season has just begun, and as far as the fishing is concerned the monsoons have also begun, but although we had one or two showers, on…

Basically the ferox is a brown trout that has over millennia developed a quite distinct lifestyle. Ferox live longer than normal brown trout, eat prey fish (generally char) rather than insect life and grow much, much bigger. Herein lies the excitement of it all: an eight pound ferox is about average, ten to twelve pounds…

Chub [Species Menu] [Chub articles] Common name: Chub Latin name: Leuciscus cephalus Record weight: 8lb 10z, taken by P. Smith from the River Wear in 1994. Distribution: Found in England, except Cornwall, South Wales, and Southern Scotland. In Europe chub can be found from Scandinavia to Italy. Not reared as a food fish, so not…