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Firstly I’d like some dry weather to bring the river levels down and give me a chance of running a float down before the season comes to an end! Secondly I’d like West Brom to get maximum points over the festive period to keep up our promotion challenge! On Saturday along with 4,000 other Albion…

As most of you will know, carp generally move around a lot less in winter than they do in summer. So the usual advice is to fish as close to them as possible, and keep your groundbaiting patterns, if any, very tight.

A weekend up on L. Alice was, therefore, planned. Initially, Belinda, patient companion on many obscure fishing trips, had decided that this was to be a solo affair. She did not think that the best place to be reading the latest thousand page novel was in some high, remote, spot, reminiscent of Scotland in the…

Now call me a cynic, but if the floods were so bad, why did we ever only see pictures of York and Worcester? Obviously, flooding for the local people is terrible, but methinks the media were having a bit of a slow news week! Unfortunately, the outcome of these floods is likely to be the…

The Bow is a shallow wide river which is why it’s a great dry fly river. It can be quite windy so I would advise a nine foot six weight rod. Even a seven weight rod might prove useful. This was the third fish in five drifts. Overhead, skeins of geese along with small flights…

Address: Trilakes Fishery, Sandhurst, Berks. Phone: 01252 873191 Lakes: two mature lakes covering 13 acres. There is also a short stretch of the River Blackwater. Day ticket: £7.50 Season: 1st April to 31st October open daily. Weekends only from 1st November to 14th March. Opening times 8am to 7.30Om or sunset if earlier. Facilities: WC,…