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I’ve had enough of just walking the river, now it’s time to get the gear out and start doing battle with one of my favourite species, barbel!This week I will take you through my thoughts on tackle for barbel fishing on rivers like the Severn. If you’ve never sampled the delights of the Severn Valley…

This scene of death is taking place on the surface of an ocean where a group of big hungry hard fighting scaly predators known as Jack Crevalles roam the warm waters in search of food. It’s the result of an ambush on a shoal of bait size fish. The water erupts again with swirling, diving…

There are never many of these big Spring coalies caught over the deep water wrecks of the English Channel, but the ones that are caught are usually big fish. It would be wishful thinking, but I don’t suppose for one moment that we will ever see a forty pound Coalfish caught in British waters. But…

He had brought me to this stretch in the winter a couple of years ago, then we had fished the opposite bank. I thought it strange that we had to fight our way through tangled undergrowth when the other bank had a clear path and so asked him what the difference was. He told me…

For many that is certainly the case, but over the last few years most of my fish have been caught in the winter months. This does not just apply to species which are well known to feed in the winter, like pike and chub, but barbel, bream and carp have succumbed to my approach. The…

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