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As far as stillwaters are concerned there is no closed season any more, and unlike many of the older generation of anglers I’m all for that. Why? Because it gives the responsible angler a greater choice, without either abusing the fish or fisheries. It means, for instance, I can fish for tench when they are…
The editor ‘phoned me last night to give his appraisal of my latest literary offerings; that’s the www.fishing.co.uk editor. “You remember fishing?” He enquired, his sarcasm barely detectable to the naked ear. His point being that although my recent ramblings were quite entertaining they had very little to do with angling, a small but valid…
That isn’t to say that I don’t fish in the summer, but I tend to choose my times and species more carefully. One of the most obliging summer species can be catfish. Here is a species that likes the heat more than I do. Give the water a couple of weeks to really warm up…
Most of my fishing in the last month has been less serious stuff, enjoying the summer months with friends and using methods which are more fun than some of the sit-and-wait we generally use when chasing specimens. The tench lake I spent the Spring fishing is now so heavily weeded that I feel the fish…
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…
Autumn has arrived, bringing fallen leaves in all the colours imaginable and… pike!Anglian Water have been in the news recently since opening their waters for pike fishing, with fish of 39lb and 24lb coming from Grafham. You still have a chance, for even though Rutland Water is now closed, the other Anglian Water venues of…
Threats to disrupt the opening of the grouse shooting season failed to materialise, police said yesterday.Hunt saboteur groups were expected at moors across the north of England, as the Glorious Twelth dawned on Saturday.But Durham, North Yorkshire and Northumbria Police all said there had been no reports of trouble.Only a handful of moors in the…
I’m not sure exactly when Peter Drennan introduced the Super Specialist rod but I think it was the early to mid 1980’s when I bought my one. I remember telling the guy in the shop that I wanted a rod which could ‘handle a 10lb carp but will still be fun with a one pound…
Articles by John Young John Young John Young has been fishing since 1972. He started by drowning maggots for anything that came along but soon donned a floppy green hat and joined the specimen hunting scene. In the late 1970s he started pursuing carp and soon caught his first 20lber on diced potato. Years later,…