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Sometime after the publication of the book, the river Bain once more came to my notice when Richard Walker fished the second of a three leg match on the river against Tom Sails, the Lincoln AA team captain in the early 1950’s. For many years I had planned to fish the water but as usual…

My earliest childhood recollection of being taken fishing is not of catching my first fish but of falling in! My dad had taken me with him and on arrival at the river had waded out into mid-stream to trot for dace. I was left alone on the bank and being a fidgety 4 year old…

This nymph is ultra fast sinking as it has a high density tungsten bead head. Bill playing a grayling on a tungsten fly Bill with a 2lb l5oz grayling on a tungsten pattern Tungsten, for it’s size, is much heavier than the more common brass type alloys used in gold bead patterns. This makes this…

British Disabled Angling Association officials put their call for a more inclusive and fraud free concessionary licence for disabled people to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister Elliot Morley MP., at a specially arranged meeting at Whitehall. With the backing of the Environment Agency, the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) delegation of Director…

For reasons best not gone into here I will not be pursuing the carp at my planned new pit any longer this spring or summer, it’s hard enough pitting ones wits against the carp without having to second guess the other anglers antics. Still, before my departure a 34lb leather was caught. Good angling, well…

Without doubt the very best winter roach fishing is when the river is high and coloured as long as this condition is not caused by snowmelt water. We need to start looking for the roach where we would expect to find them in summer and then look around to see where they would move to…