Neil’s Tackle Box

Humans are very complicated animals! They have evolved traits that probably no other animal in the world possess, and two that come readily to mind are, a conscience, and deep emotion. The human conscience is probably unique, and yet, something that humans quite happily ignore. They have an ability to often foresee the result of…

Trophy Room for Mike Thrussell Specie: tope Weight: in excess of 80lbsHeres a tope I caught aboard my own dinghy which an accurate mathematical formula suggested weighed in excess of 80lbs and was certainly a Welsh record and maybe even a UK record qualifier. Well never know as I returned the fish unharmed a split…

The tackle set-up is the same as that described in the previous piece, with a 9-weight outfit and floating line being my standard choice when targeting fish of double figures upwards. The leader makeup does however change, with my standard set-up being 18″ of 12lb mono, 24″ of 10lb mono 24″ of 8lb mono and…

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Disinfectants Can Kill As I look back over the past few months, my thoughts go back to previous seasons when I would have had three or four sessions a week on the rivers and streams casting a fly or nymph to a brown trout, especially during May and June. This year it didn’t happen. I…

The death of a legend. Bernard Venables MBE, who was Mr Crabtree to millions of us, has gone from this life. No oak coffin for our Crabtree, he was laid out in a creel. There was no church service. His family and friends gathered in a village hall. Some wore the dandelion flower in their…