Barnsfold Water near Chipping, in the shadow of Beacon Fell. Fishing well now the water has cooled down, several double figure bags taken mostly by anglers fishing slime line with several fish in the 5-8lb bracket. Buzzers still taking fish but most fish on small fry patterns; try a small rudd fry or polystickle. Safe…

Once the river levels were back to a fishable condition, coarse and game anglers experienced some good fishing. On the game fishing rivers lots of seatrout have been caught with many being returned. The rivers Hodder, Ribble, Lune and Eden all offered good sport. Peter Richards of Bolton legering a lobworm for chub and barbel…

On Friday 13th September 2002 it will be fifty years since the late Richard Walker caught his record common carp carp weighing 44lbs from Bernithan Court near Ross-on-Wye. Its now known as Redmire Pool. To celebrate the occasion I will be broadcasting an interview with the late Richard Walker describing the capture of his record…

Address: Trilakes Fishery, Sandhurst, Berks. Phone: 01252 873191 Lakes: two mature lakes covering 13 acres. There is also a short stretch of the River Blackwater. Day ticket: £7.50 Season: 1st April to 31st October open daily. Weekends only from 1st November to 14th March. Opening times 8am to 7.30Om or sunset if earlier. Facilities: WC,…

Spot on – DR PAUL GARNER by Dr Paul Garner, Monday 24th December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Beginner, Coarse, Experienced, Specialist, Stillwater/Lake/Pond, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs, Watercraft Articles related by species: Bream, Carp, Catfish, Chub, Crucian Carp, Grass Carp, Orfe, Perch, Pike, Roach, Rudd, Tench, Zander It has been said innumerable times that the most important…

It’s fair to say that a man’s value (in some ways at least) can be measured well by the quality of those who seek his company. If you accept that premise, then you will be pleased to hear that Fred Buller, a man who’s company has been sought by many of the great names of…

BV was quite simply, the best angling writer of the twentieth century. No other angling writer has approached his genius for capturing the distilled essence of what is angling. His books were written in a glorious, almost florid style; never with facile turn of phrase, to a dumbed-down Sun-reader market, but up to a faithful…

I was not expecting the level to be quite so high, so the waders were back at home in the garage and I was hampered by how far I could wade out to flick the baits back to the clear spots. I was eager to get a bait in the same spot that I lost…

Unless you are fortunate enough to live in a part of the country rich in specimen fishing, you might be hard pushed to find top class specimen fishing locally. It can be very demoralising, looking at the same old faces in the Anglers Mail each week, their grinning mugshot with another huge fish, but behind…

I paid my first visit of the New Year to the Lyttleton stretch at Stourport for the Marks Tackle midweeker and had a really interesting, hard winters match at peg 58. I switched between a twelve number four lignum stick set just overdepth in twelve feet of water and a straight lead to record a…