Summer weather had finally showed its face with warm sunshine bringing the carp up on top to drift around seemingly aimlessly. When I arrived, one guy had been there all day chasing the carp around the lake continuously. Due to the algae colouring up the water it was hard to see much below the surface…

The week started not too bad weatherwise, the cooler nights had passed and warmer days and nights were back. I had a good look round and with the warm westerly breeze I was tempted to fish the end of a long island but after leading around a bit all I could find was weed. Then…

But this time the quarry was about as far removed as it is possible to be from the princely salmon – this time I would be fishing in the sea, for skate. I had been invited up by my friend Davy to fish from his boat Catchalot, in the Sound of Mull. Reports were of…

Anglers not used to tackling big fish hold sharks in awe and tend to treat them with maybe too much respect. Fact is that blues are the easiest of all the UK sharks to catch, they’ll fight but won’t pull your arms off and neither do you need specialised rods and reels. The biggest advantage…

Shore pollack fishing with artificial lures through the summer and autumn time is fast catching up and is becoming almost a cult thing, much as bass fishing did back in the mid 1960’s. Anglers are looking for lighter tackle thrills more and more nowadays and pollack off the shore fight hard. They also seek more…

Dace offer the angler a different challenge to other larger species. In dace fishing we are entering a world in miniature with its own very special demands. It is generally recognised that lightening reflexes with perfect presentation are key requirements. It is these special demands that have made dace fishing a special and stimulating aspect…

Within milliseconds the probing electronic scan began to fill the edge of the screen with fish markings, showing shoals of fish hanging in the up-swell of current; the food-rich water accelerating from the depths, bringing with it the microscopic plankton and feed stuff that fish such as Whiting are on the prowl for in such…

There are never many of these big Spring coalies caught over the deep water wrecks of the English Channel, but the ones that are caught are usually big fish. It would be wishful thinking, but I don’t suppose for one moment that we will ever see a forty pound Coalfish caught in British waters. But…

Lately I have been fishing the Skerries for the early Plaice, and the rough ground off the back of the Hands Deep about 10 miles south of Looe in Cornwall. Drifting a boat over this sort of ground whilst fishing for flatfish, whiting, cod and so on, is a superb method of finding the fish….

Normally I would at this point let him off the lead to run free, but not this morning. Today he stays tethered to me – because today there are people all around the lake. Fishing. Today is the opening day of the season and the carp, the anglers hope, are gagging for it.I pass a…