I made my way on the long walk round the lake. I was worried that there might be a massive increase of weed but this seemed unfounded as a huge part of the estate lake that had been weedy seemed to have cleared. It was still hot but there was a gentle easterly wind, which…

Most of the juniors in attendance found pole fishing to be their favourite method on the day with a combination of either meat and caster or corn and caster as feed and hookbait. Carp up to five pounds and bream up to three pounds fell foul to the youngsters baits and everyone seemed to really…

Carp were in evidence as soon as I turned up. A stockie mirror leapt out of the water just as I arrived. I wasted no time getting the baits back out to the two same spots and as evening drew on I was very confident. The bait near the island was in an especially good…

Ideas and prejudices will be formed as you go through the steepest part of the learning curve. Here are the remaining five of my top ten tips for getting the most out of these first faltering steps on a new water. Fish away from other anglers Following on from the previous tip, try to avoid…

Not so very long ago I was told by the females of my family, that they really would not have minded if I had enjoyed a half day or even a whole day aboard one of the many charter boats that abound where ever the sun shines with any degree of regularity. Sometimes the logic…

In Search of The Nile Perch is presented by Barrie Rickards, who has been on several safaris to Egypt and has accumulated considerable knowledge of the venue and the Nile Perch. This is evident throughout the video and together with Tim Baily, this Safari had great potential.The time of year [August] when the trip was…

There is an ever growing number of fisheries specialising in breaks for the holidaying angler in the UK but if you like to live on the wild side and have a bit of pioneering spirit then the world is your oyster. With air flights getting cheaper and cheaper you can spend your days fishing for…

Christmas is one time of the year I never fish nowadays although I have in fact fished many times on Christmas Eve and many years ago a group of us used to go up the Fens to fish for zander over the New Year Eve period.These Christmas excursions though have always been about having a…

I went into the same swim and once again went through the process of wading out to the front of the swim and casting around looking for the essential clear areas amongst the weed. This done it was back out with the PVA bags of pellets and crushed boilies. I had run out of Gardner’s…

Firstly I’d like some dry weather to bring the river levels down and give me a chance of running a float down before the season comes to an end! Secondly I’d like West Brom to get maximum points over the festive period to keep up our promotion challenge! On Saturday along with 4,000 other Albion…