We were on a package arranged and guided by Paul Hunt, a UK angler whose knowledge of the fishing on the Canadian side of the river is exceptional, and I was so impressed that I wrote an article about the trip for the magazine of the British Carp Study Group, a Society whose President, a…
Many animals feel and show emotion, but human emotion is something else. This thought was uppermost recently when I was listening to some wonderful music, ridiculously emanating from a small plastic box. I cannot even recall what the piece was called, but it stirred me so much emotionally that there were tears in my eyes….
Articles by M. A. Roe M. A. Roe Age 40 odd Occupation Community Psychiatric Nurse Crisis Team Homebase Lytham St Annes Lancashire Angling Career Started fishing at the age of 8 in a farm pond in the out back of Suffolk then went on to develop as an all rounder who is just as happy…
Although current wisdom says that these are line bites and fish just tugging at the line this is often far from the case. Twitches can also result from fish feeding very confidently and anglers must judge what is going on in their swims to get the best from the situation. If you think that you…
I must admit, that I will not be amongst their ranks, as I still have much unfinished business on stillwaters, but in the past I have had more than a passing inclination to spend the summer on rivers up and down the country. The start of the season can be a real disappointment, and this…
As I drove past the lake I could see the swim was free but I had to drive a further half mile until I got to the gate and then negotiate the potholes and brambles before I was finally settled in there. The weather was very hot but a gentle southerly wind was blowing into…
In the high-pressure world of modern specialist angling, tench fishing is one area in which I believe you can retain some of the more traditional techniques and still be very competitive and successful. This is not retro-angling รก la Chris Yates but an adaptation of existing methods to create an efficient and deadly way of…
Personally I love to introduce newcomers to my favourite sport as I get a lot of satisfaction out of seeing them do battle with their first ever fish. I recently got a friend of mine’s lad into fishing and he loves it. What was interesting was that he got probably more enjoyment out of catching…
There is no doubt that fishing when the fish are most willing to feed gives you a mighty edge. For carp, bream and barbel this can be almost obligatory, but how do you get started? Is night fishing so very much more difficult than fishing during the day? Night fishing for me developed out of…
It was a couple of weeks ago, I had put one rod on a gravel shelf under an overhanging tree, the other rod was on the side of a gravel hump. It was the tree rod that produced the goods, read on.In the torchlight a large flank glistened back. As I peered into the net,…