The most useful item is a buttpad strapped around your waist, so that the butt of the rod is held in a comfortable position, your reeling hand falls comfortably to the reels handle and the hand gripping the rods foregrip is in an optimum position to pump the rod. Many rod makers in recent times…

With the advent of increasingly sophisticated electronic aids, so pioneering skippers began to push further and further offshore from Plymouth and so long-distance wreck fishing was born. In its heyday, big numbers of boats would all be racing out of the Sound and on out into the Channel for a days fishing, skippers confident, and…

SEAWEEK: BrightLine – RUSS SYMONS by Russ Symons, Monday 3rd December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Boat, Exotic, Sea, Shore, Tackle, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs Articles related by species: Bream, Brill, Coalfish, Cod, Conger Eel, Haddock, Pollack, Shark, Sharks, Skate, Sole, Thornback Ray, Tope, Turbot, Whiting t has often been said that using these recently introduced brightly…

Journey to Northwest Fishing Guides, British Columbia, holders of the current world record catch and release Chinook Salmon of 99 _ lb, and home to the greatest salmon and steelhead runs in the world! Steve Crowther , competitor and manager of the Great Britain lure angling team won individual and team medals representing his country,…

It was about this time I decided I wasn’t fishing enough. A night in a bivvy in near hypothermic conditions was warmer than the frosty reception I could ever expect at home. Unfortunately the venue I had decided to concentrate my efforts on was not renowned for its summer captures and, anytime past October, you…

The answering strike connected with another Bow river brown trout that made a long powerful run downstream, after some minutes the barbless hook was slipped from the mouth of a fish weighing some two pounds, a small one by Bow river standards. It’s a shallow wide river which is why it’s a great dry fly…

First off – wreckfishing. How about loading a big fixed-spool reel (say an Emblem 6000 or similar) with 20lb braid, matching it to a heavy-duty 7 spinning rod (say an UglyStick) and banging your pirks and hopper-rigs far beyond the wreck as you drift down on it, similar to what many Europeans and Yanks do,…

At 2pm I received a phone call – we had to board by 4.30. I hurriedly phoned my friend at work to see if he could leave straight away. It was difficult, but he managed it, and soon we were racing down the M4 hoping there would be no traffic jams. We made the ferry…

You’ll remember I was wading down a submerged sandbar, formed at the tail of an island that was set long-ways in the middle of the river. Having taken several dace on my first run down the pool, I was almost halfway down for the second time when the fly was seized with great force. Then…

A bit of a salty flavour in the water with this months edition of FISHING.CO.UK.We have our usual bundle of sea fishing writers of course. Mike Thrussell tackles the not so common skate and Russ Symons alerts us that the first cod are on the way. Freshwater favourite Barmey Bill Rushmer is also rabbiting on…