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The past month was certainly an exciting one for me, Even if I couldn’t get on my local rivers the Aire, Ribble, Wharfe, Ure, Lune, Eden and Hodder. I could have fished a small stretch of the river Ribble on the Post Office stretch at Ribchester controlled by Prince Albert AS who had opened the…

Articles by Eric Edwards Eric Edwards Eric Edwards is forty five years of age, a logistics manager and lives in St. Helens, near Liverpool with his wife and three children. An angler since the age of six, he has specialised in catching specimen coarse fish for the last thirty years. Notable captures include a record…

This is my main float for trotting medium to fast paced rivers. I use them in sizes ranging from 5BB to 1 OBB which in some parts of the country would be classed as very heavy but I am fishing flowing rivers like the Tidal Thames, Kennet, Test, Itchen, Dorset Stour and the Hampshire Avon….

In reality the political scene, whether related to angling or any other topic, has not changed. Politicians and their lackeys promise everything to everyone, but very little ever gets done and so nothing really changes when anglers want improved fisheries and the environmental necessities that would guarantee those improvements.This was brought home to me recently…

On the coast you should find plenty of mullet around the harbours and creeks try float fishing with bread using ground cooked rice and mashed bread as an attractor. On the rivers you should find all species of coarse fish. On the north of England and Wales seatrout rivers, anglers are enjoying excellent sport. Don’t…

To catch such superb specimens in some of Scotland’s loveliest coastal scenery was the angling experience of a lifetime – but sadly, all too ephemeral. In came the commercial boats, some legally but plenty illegally, and those prolific marks were transformed into barren emptiness, with even the sea bed being ploughed up. But in recent…