Basically the ferox is a brown trout that has over millennia developed a quite distinct lifestyle. Ferox live longer than normal brown trout, eat prey fish (generally char) rather than insect life and grow much, much bigger. Herein lies the excitement of it all: an eight pound ferox is about average, ten to twelve pounds…

Anglian Water have announced the opening dates of the four trout fisheries for the coming 2002 season and with Easter very early all four will be open before the 1 April. Ravensthorpe Friday 1 March Pitsford Water Friday 15 March Grafham Water Saturday 23 March Rutland Water Thursday 28 March A range of six Season…

Doh! Frustration! You see, I just spent the best part of two hours (alright, ten minutes) writing this piece only to lose it in a hard disk crash. And no, actually, cleverdick, I had not yet gotten around to saving it, let alone backing it up. Besides, as everybody knows very well, back-ups are for…

Know your enemy.That’s what they say, though looking through the recent write-ups about Peta I found it hard to ignore the comparative references to them being ‘totalitarian’, ‘fascists’ and even ‘Nazi’. I thought that was a bit strong. Until I started to read up about them that is. You’ll have to make your own minds…

Articles by Geoff Maynard Geoff Maynard geoff@fishing.org Geoff Maynard Born in East London 1950, raised in Essex, now living in front of a screen in Surrey with his wonderful posh wife, his punk daughter, his three boys who are too big to insult, and a doggie called Macs. As a small child, Geoff caught his…

For starters, youíll just never find clearer water anywhere and most of the Greenlandic rivers make the Itchen look like a mud hole. Not surprising, really: they flow straight from the Ice Cap with the crystal purity of eternity in their veins. And then there is the number of fish available. Arctic char. As wild…

In fact thereís probably little doubt that the very best pike fishing in the entire world is to be found along the fringes of the Baltic sea. I, myself, have witnessed the capture of one forty-seven pound fish. Iíve lost a fish that was at least seven or eight pounds larger. Iíve either seen or…

Trout fisheries, it seems, have finally woken up to the fact that pike anglers are prepared to pay big money for good quality pike fishing and more and more of them are taking advantage of it. Sure, some of these places have a rather one sided view of the situation and only use pike anglers…

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,…

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,…