We were soon into silvers or chums, though the fishing was a little slower than it had previously been. After catching a nice chum on almost my first cast with a sunk fly (purple ESL again) I decided to spend some time trying to get a silver to take a surface fly. For the remainder…

If you have ever rummaged in the bottom of a tackle bag and come away with several old and rusted Mackerel feathers stuck in your fingers you will appreciate this simple method of keeping a set of feathers tidy, as well as ready for immediate use. Another benefit is that you do not have to…

Right. That’s got that one out of the way then. The year I mean, Okay, and the century too, for those pedants among you. Here we are then, in the year predicted by Arthur C. Clarke to be the age of rebel computers. Of course, I’m talking about 2001 A Space Oddessy – youngsters get…

A soft bag with “just enough” tackle in a rig wallet, spare reel, sarnies, biscuits, mars bar and flask is all you really need. Most traces that an angler needs for boat fishing can be tied up from a small box of bits and a few spools of line en route to the wreck, reef…

I remember a good few years back when Nev Fickling wrote a couple of articles about specimen hunting on the River Trent, entitled ‘The Specialist Trent’. I’d never fished the Trent at the time, but found his knowledge and advice in these pieces very interesting and could relate it to my own fishing on the…

Hopefully the new web-page design will allow you to search our archives and investigate our databases in an easier than ever manner. Browse around, the benefits should be obvious. At least – they will be when we get the bugs out! Give it time, remember that Wapping wasn’t built in a day. Or was that…

The Teign is justly famous for its large flounder. Not so well advertised, but very highly regarded locally is the Fowey, the Exe, areas around Kingsbridge and lately the Plym estuary which is just a mile or so from where I live. These estuaries will see several of these four pounds plus fish caught over…

It enables the waste to be dumped overboard miles from shore, returning it to the food chain from whence it came. Besides which, the fish carcases do not stink your dustbin up for days. But cleaning fish on a lively boat that is heading for home at best speed can be fraught with danger if…

But then that might have something to do with the fact that it is and always has been efficient at holding very well on a sandy bottom. Many of us believe that the hole in the middle tends to fill with sand, so increasing the sinkers grip and apparent weight, whatever. “if it works dont…

A UK record fish list is first, this is something that a lot of people have asked for in the past and comes to us courtesty of the British Record (rod caught) Fish Committee. I thought I knew my fish but there are species in there that I have never even heard of! New too…