Fishing’s just as bad as foxhunting and hare coursing, it’s hunting fish. Such is the mantra of the world’s biggest animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which at present spearheads the campaign against us.While more moderate campaign groups like the RSPCA and International Fund for Animal Welfare are unlikely to fall…
That would seem to be the picture that some people have in their minds about recent events at Blithfield reservoir. The truth however, is rather different! LetÃs start at the beginning.Blithfield reservoir is an 800 acre water supply reservoir situated near the village of Abbots Bromley in Staffordshire. The fishing is run by Blithfield Anglers…
Apparently – despite fervent pleas from the police, MAFF, and farming leaders – these idiots who are protesting against Huntingdon Life Sciences are going ahead with a protest in rural Suffolk, despite the significant risk they might introduce Foot & Mouth into Suffolk. The reason? Apparently they “see no reason” why their protest should not…
You ask why? Well, I know there are not many ladies that fish – but there could be! Yes, there are hundreds if not thousands of women all over the country who would like to fish, or to accompany their partners and sit and soak up the atmosphere and enjoy the beautiful surroundings on balmy…
Now call me a cynic, but if the floods were so bad, why did we ever only see pictures of York and Worcester? Obviously, flooding for the local people is terrible, but methinks the media were having a bit of a slow news week! Unfortunately, the outcome of these floods is likely to be the…
M’lud glowers sternly at the raggle taggle bunch in the dock, clad in one-piece suits and moon boots.”Anglers, you stand before me charged with apathy,” he roars as their heads hang in shame. “How do you plead?”Angling’s on trial whether we like it or not. And they’ve got us bang to rights when it comes…
Last Summer, as part of its fund raising activities, the school organised a fish-in to support a children’s home in Central Transylvania, Romania. The pupils of the school appear to have identified with and adopted this orphanage. It is very much a case of children helping children.We are very fortunate that our Deputy Head, Tim…
Tench are at their best from early April through to late June, this period being narrower or wider, or the time band shifting either earlier or later in the year, according to the conditions at the time. If that period is particularly mild then the tench will begin feeding earlier and will spawn earlier, or…
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…
Traditionally it is fished as a point fly with a floating line and a greased up leader using a very slow retrieve. However there are many other methods of fishing this buzzer including having a dry or floating fly on the point with the buzzer fished on a short dropper. Another useful approach is to…