I thought that I would spend the next few weeks looking at the flies that we use on the Bristol Reservoirs through the first few weeks of the season. I will go into the details of tying techniques while I am at it. Of course I will not claim that this is in any way…

Enthused by a wonderful couple of days in March at Kiwayu, of the coast of North Kenya, when we had had fine sport taking Koli-Koli (aka Golden Trevally) on the fly, as they in their turn preyed upon the shoals of sardines, I dared to suggest to Belinda that we once again ventured down to…

Big bream are awesome creatures. OK, they don’t generally fight very hard, and yes, they do smell a bit, oh, and they can be a bit slimy, but they really are awesome looking creatures. Have you ever seen a double figure bream? I hadn’t until 1998, although I had come close on a couple of…

I know there were some sinking hearts in the group, because mine was one of them. I had spent too many years in this sort of situation, knowing full well that the odds of that Easterly wind dropping were on a par with clapping eyeballs on a flying pig, as well the Skipper knew. But…

For quite a few years now, the staple rig for a UK catfish angler travelling abroad to fish the continental rivers has been the ‘bottle rig,’ otherwise known as the ‘buoy method’.There is no doubt at all that this is a red-hot method of presenting a bait. In fact, for a long time I thought…

After witnessing a nasty accident on the rocks recently I make no apologies for writing about fishing footwear and clothing again.What some anglers fail to realise is that the wearing of bright clothing makes it much easier for the Search and Rescue helicopter crew to spot you should you be unfortunate enough to fall into…

With all this nasty Foot and Mouth disease about, many of the shore venues and the footpaths leading to them are out of bounds so many anglers are taking to the boats for their fishing. It really doesn’t matter whether you are afloat in a dinghy or in a fantastically fast and comfortable charter boat,…

If you want the pristine places where the fish are relatively undisturbed then you must be prepared to walk for at least half an hour along a coastal path, find a path through gorse and bushes, perhaps do some careful rock scrambling. Surprisingly even on this crowded and overpopulated island it is still possible to…

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