Neil’s Tackle Box

Without a shadow of a doubt my vote for the two nicest people goes to: The late Richard Stuart Walker 1918-1985, Britain’s top angling writer/ photographer and also angling’s best known personality in his day. The other is Bernard Kreh, born in 1925. who is acknowledged as America’s top angler, outdoor writer and a top…

I will concentrate on carp in this piece but may stray to other species if space allows. Right, where do we start? Well, the many articles written in the weekly and monthly angling magazines about winter carp fishing are correct, with respects to the basics, so I will start with them. First of all do…

Tench [Species Menu] [Tench articles] Common name: Tench Latin name: Tinca tinca Record weight: Fifteen pounds, caught by Darren Ward from a Surrey lake in June 2001. Distribution: Because of its economic importance as a food source, tench have been spread right across Europe and Asia by humans. In the UK they can now be…

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The close season has been a frustrating one. The continuing Foot and Mouth crisis has kept most rivers out of bounds denying access for my traditional reconnaissance trips. I love to stomp the banks of the Kennet in the spring looking out for new swims and seeing the changes the winter floods have wrought on…