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The bulk of fish are well offshore thinking only of recreating their species and, apart for some wreck fishing sport for pollack, ling, cod and coalfish, if you travel down to the West Country, then it can be pretty inconsistent in most areas. But there literally is a ray of sunshine. Thornback rays! The thornbacks…

The angler, trying not to move around in his boat and disturb the trout which were heading and tailing as far as he could see from Dunlop Bay to the Willows, dropped his cast of Suspender Buzzer and Hopper gently in front of a feeding fish. The Suspender was engulfed, the angler tightened and a…

Location: From Exeter take the A30 to Okehampton. In the centre of Okehampton turn right at the lights on to the A386 to Hatherleigh. At Hatherleigh turn left on to the A3072 Holsworthy/Bude road. Travel for 7 miles then turn left at the sign “Chilla 2 miles”. Kingslake is 3/4 of a mile along this…

I first used this pattern several years ago when I fished Tree Meadow Fishery at Hayle in Cornwall. At the time I was on a family holiday in Falmouth with my wife, Virginia. We had spent several days touring and sight seeing. I wanted a change and looked in the “Get Hooked” publication that covers…

I discussed this with top fish breeder and Anglers Paradise boss, Zyg Gregorek, who told me that he believes the record will eventually reach double figures. This no doubt will further increase the popularity of this species.Zyg went on to explain that he believed that all the bigger orfe in the country were the selectively…

Now I wouldn’t go as far as that these days – not in Scotland anyway. But whenever I’ve been lucky enough to fish the Varzuga or the Ponoi in Russia’s Kola and hit one of those spells when I’m hooking 20 fish a day, I’ve felt that those old aristos had a point. Because the…