MONDAY9th October 2000

Back To The Waterside April can certainly be a month of change. This month will often start with very cold easterly or north easterly winds, clear night skies and frost, sometimes it even snows. A week later we can have some delightful spring weather with warm sunny days and light south westerly winds. Hopefully we…

After the enforced break we can all get back on the rivers and canals again and hopefully have some good sport. I know some people still take a three month break after March 14th but I reckon it’s time to completely review the close season across the board. The three month closedown is nonsense in…

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Directions: From Wareham take the A351 towards Swanage. Turn left at Corfe Castle down the road sign posted for Studland and follow the road under the disused railway bridge. About 300 yards on your left you will see a sign saying “Arfleet Mill Lake Coarse Fishing”. Go through the gate and travel down the dirt…

One of the most asked questions in my e-mail bag is “where can I get my favourite reel repaired??” and it is often evident from some of the mail that the cost of repair is an almost secondary consideration. The reel has become a familiar “friend”, a part of the day out.Most reel manufacturers have…

The year must have been 1965, and I was a six-year old in a fish market on the Greek coast, eyes popping out at the sight of a bluefin bigger than myself, and I distinctly remember my mother dragging me away forcibly from the fish counter, my heels smoking against the floor. I never knew…