BV was quite simply, the best angling writer of the twentieth century. No other angling writer has approached his genius for capturing the distilled essence of what is angling. His books were written in a glorious, almost florid style; never with facile turn of phrase, to a dumbed-down Sun-reader market, but up to a faithful…
The ferry took 1.15 hours to get there. But the weather was calm, with just a light breeze blowing. The weather for the weekend was forecast as being good, with average temperatures. It was, however, very overcast but warm. I had the happy experience of catching the first seatrout of the weekend, about 20 minutes…
Put me on a beach in Namibia and hook me into one of their runaway bronze whaler sharks and I will be close to collapsing from pure, unadulterated excitement! But I do not live there and my home fishing is what makes me the angler (or dangler?!) that I am; who could beat winter codding…
FISHING.CO.UK is now running on a new server, so that should speed things up a bit. Let me know if you are experiencing any problems and we’ll see if we can sort things out. It’s nice to get stuff like that sorted out early on in the year, it interferes with too much fishing time…
BioBait change and lunch at 1.45. Nothing to report. Client happy to steer where I tell him as I work cockpit etc. Feel more assured as time goes by without a touch. Water still cold, 70 – 71, and stiff breeze comes up at 4.00. Head back from the west at 5.10 after another BioBait…
This month we have yet another competition, tackle and fishery reviews, plus the usual feast of articles for you to consume. There is, as always, something for everyone here, from the dedicated big game angler to the guy under the green brolly on the canal. Please, don’t just read about your favourite discipline, because you’ll…
The passing of the years has seen innumerable other transitory interests. Stamps, cricket, football, girls, astronomy, photography, and computers in rough time sequence. I have played – no, make that endured – golf. But always undimmed and uninterrupted the obsession for fishing. It started with Crabtree, progressed through the writings of Walker, and the quill…
In an attempt to avoid the dubious charms of a lady of the night (if indeed it was a woman!) I crossed the road at a point where roadworks were going on. Out of a hole in the road came a mud smeared creature in nothing but a pair of heavy boots, a singlet and…
v NGOs call on Ireland to match restraint shown by Greenland v Mackerel by-catch may help explain declines in wild salmon v Demands to eradicate lethal parasite in Norway The 19th annual meeting of the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organisation (NASCO see note 1) in the Faroe Islands June 3-7 agreed reduced quotas for salmon…
So far our success has been slight. CEPHEUS has neither the speed nor the stealth to approach these fish with consistent success as they feed sporadically on the surface, and our one hook-up so far came as a result of two small pieces of luck. Firstly we managed to get close enough to a subsiding…