The British record has been rattled by no less than three different 50lbs plus carp which incredibly came out over the same weekend. Forties are throwing themselves onto the banks at most of the big fish venues around the U.K., and some even bigger fish have been caught from faraway lands. Later on in this…

Sweetcorn has become a very popular bait for many species of fish. It is cheap, clean and easy to use. However as its popularity has increased, fish of many waters have learnt to associate its colour and smell with danger. Fish have been known to bolt out of a swim at its very sight in…

Mask Pt 3 – Methods and Tackle by Mark Ackerley, Thursday 1st July, 1999 Articles related by topic: Bait, Coarse, Lure/Plug/Spoon/Spinner/Jig/Pi, Predator, Stillwater/Lake/Pond, Tackle, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs Articles related by species: Pike 1994 will be remembered by me as the year when work seriously got in the way of pike fishing. I in fact spent most…

The bonus is that tope grow big. It’s not unusual to get tope in the 20lbs to 40lbs weight range when shore fishing and you are in with a realistic chance of fish to 60lbs at certain times of the year. Cod and conger aside, no other fish reach these weights that a shore angler…

As we crept slowly across the flat in about 15 inches of water, we could see tailing bones rooting about in the soft bottom or around the mangroves, for crabs, shrimps or any other food item they could find. After about eighty yards Chuck whispered “Good bone Martin at fifty feet 11 O’clock” However hard…

Many years ago, in fact more years than I care to remember, my father would take me off to the river Kennet for a days trout fishing during ‘Duffers Fortnight’ as it was known. If memory serves me correctly it was usually the first few days of June. In those far off days we thought…

The Falklands represent all that is good about fishing wild places and the lessons learnt there can be applied anywhere.I am a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force. I came to be there on a four month tour on a mountain radar site on the north west tip of the West Falklands at a place…

Driving there, it started to rain very heavily which made me think that the river would be coloured and a waste of time. The previous year, Neville had tipped me off about a couple of bays on Corrib from which it was possible to bank fish, so it was to there that I headed. Neville…

Articles by Jason Inskip Jason Inskip Jason Inskip has a notably pathetic record in the capture of large specimens, although he has been a keen angler for over 30 years. This inept performance covers most branches of the sport, including coarse angling and saltwater flyfishing both in the UK and elsewhere. He prefers to use…

My wife has been pretty good about my fishing expeditions into the back of beyond, but when I told her that I fancied a trip up the Zaire river in search of Goliath tigerfish, she finally put her foot down. Having spent a lot of time in that part of Africa, she has some fairly…