That may sound daft, for they are not the best of conditions for fishing; not normally anyhow, but when youíre throwing slugs and lobs to chub in water that has been warmed by a summer sun it seems as though they are the best conditions at times. I know I enjoy the fishing when itís…

My airbed has deflated in the night and I feel the hardness of the ground in the numbness of my muscles and it is cold, damp and not pleasant. My tent zip is opened a few inches and I then find a hot cup of tea thrust into my hands as the call comes again…

In fact, all the coarse fish species can be caught on a fly. I had an instance last summer when I spotted a shoal of perch. But with no worms or spinners I thought all was lost in trying to catch those perch, then remembered that I did have a film canister in the waistcoat…

This form of bread is easy to prepare and it is both denser and softer than conventional dry crusts. This bait sinks and more importantly, being softer, the fish tend to hang on longer to the bait giving more positive bites. It is also easier to strike through the bait to catch the fish resulting…

The thinking behind all this is that the man must be more concerned about his appearance than he is about his business. I hope that this ‘fact’ is being noted down at our head office where Rob Harradine, our fishing.co.uk Projects Manager , is currently attired in the discarded remnants of a 70’s game-show host…

Long sessions are O-U-T! and anything entailing more than a few stolen hours here and there needs rigorous planning and a little deceit “Honest kids, I have to go, it’s business!”. Suddenly it seems that fishing.co.uk has lifted a lot of my free time from me and the time I would have spent on a…

The writer will tell us about seeing barbel glide from under the lush green canopy of weed and begin to feed on the clean gravel. He may also describe how he waits for the barbel to make an appearance and begin to mop up the scattering of sweetcorn he had introduced earlier. We northern anglers…

Big fish are available in an ever increasing number of waters. You can either choose a target species and travel to waters that contain fish of specimen size, or fish for species which grow big in your local waters. The aim of this, the concluding part of my article, is to point the novice specimen…

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…

On the big Meadow lake at Somerley I passed a chap in a Trilby hat carrying a lovely Mk.IV and Walker landing net. He even smiled and said ‘Good evening’ which is very unusual at Somerley, where ‘grunt’ is the accepted greeting, and properly enunciated works invoke an incredulous wide-eyed stare.The arguments for and against…