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Address: Pickering Trout Lake Newbridge Road Pickering Yorkshire Y018 8JJ Phone number: 01751 474219 Directions: From York take the A64 to Malton and then the A169 to Pickering. The fishery is well sign-posted in Pickering and is next to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. Fishery details: One fairly clear spring-fed trout lake of approaching 4…

Shop bought peeler is always expensive, but sometimes spending a few pounds on good bait for a few hours fishing is part and parcel of todays pace of life. But, if you have the time, inclination and energy to go and gather your own bait from the seashore rocks and mudflats, then somehow the fish…

The Porbeagle Shark, Lamna Nasus, is Northern Europe’s ‘biggest big game fish’. It is thought to grow to about a thousand pounds, and the All-Tackle World Record is a fish of 507 pounds, caught by Christopher Bennet, off Caithness, Scotland in March 1993. It has a number of different names; which include, Salmon Shark, Herring…

This picture is not really surprising since the river trout of Scotland have long been overshadowed by their apparently more glamorous counterparts, the salmon. In the glory days when migratory fish were prolific, trout were regarded as low status fish, at best a lesser substitute for the table should no salmon be caught, and at…

The great advantage of floating boilies is that, like conventional boilies, they are very resistant to the attacks of smaller fish. You do not need to worry about your bait not being there on the hook. There is also the added advantage that the bait, being hard, is unlikely to come off the hook when…

Top individual was Martin Greatbatch who was one of the anglers on 9. His fish weighed in at 21lbs 13oz, all caught on red dries to the left of the tower. Martin told John Horsey that he was unaware of the number of trout in that part of the lake and that it was his…