This style of fishing is a method I normally employ when I’m after big fish like barbel and chub with big baits on the hook. It’s a very positive style of fishing that requires strong rods, strong lines and strong hooks. In a nutshell it’s not a method for the faint hearted! I love fishing…

With the unfortunate demise of the close season, looking forward to June 16th, to warm misty dawns and tench bubbles fizzing up to the surface may not be quite the same as it was, as some anglers won’t have had a break from fishing. Of those who have, I suppose many will be carp fishing…

I discussed this with top fish breeder and Anglers Paradise boss, Zyg Gregorek, who told me that he believes the record will eventually reach double figures. This no doubt will further increase the popularity of this species.Zyg went on to explain that he believed that all the bigger orfe in the country were the selectively…

Anglers did tend to compartmentalise their fishing in those days too. June and early July was for tench, July through September for carp (remember that carp didn’t feed in cold water….) September and October was barbel time, and October was start of the pike-fishing season. Species including chub and roach were sought through the autumn…

Not a lot of Brits get out to this little country and many tend to have a very hazy idea of even where it is. So first, a quick geography and history lesson. Let’s get this bit straight first. The Czech Republic is nowhere near any of the worlds known trouble spots. It is also…

Some of the advantages offered by using a boat are fairly obvious while others are a little more subtle. Lets take a look at a few of them. Distance Ever sat blanking on a big water while watching shoals of fish turning over well out of casting range? I know I have, lots of times….

If you are like me rather than ledgering or going on the feeder, if the opportunity arises on the float then that’s what I’ll use, and for deep water it has to be the slider.Now, back in the Sixties when I first got interested in sliding float tactics there was only one available, the Billy…

To actually see the carp coming up to the surface and taking baits really gets the adrenaline going. Then, when a carp moves towards your bait, the tension can be almost unbearable. However catching carp off the surface is not always as easy as it appears. On hard fished waters they can be very cautious…

It started with a traffic jam which delayed us from getting to the river much before noon. I half expected there to be no swims available and was pleasantly surprised that only one other car was in the car park. Ah, but that was on this side of the river. The far bank was littered…

Now, I had two or three days holiday which I could take, and this would give me a few extra days fishing before the curtain came down, though I would be ski-ing at Glenshee for the penultimate weekend of the season and not fishing. In fact, in the last three weeks I managed just five…