Friday 4 Sept. 19929.00am. We leave with Paul on board. Ricky and Manuel to work the cockpit today. Weather perfect. By 11.30 we are up on Three Fish Ridge and inside of us we see Anguilla hook up. Within minutes I have talked with Jonno, and he tells me that one of his clients is…

Jeff and I clink glasses (water in mine as I have a car to drive at the other end) and we toast a reasonable summer so far. It is Friday, July 19th, and Cepheus lies fully-laden on her pontoon in La Gomera. With 3200 litres of fuel on board, her riggers bound up, the chair…

Apart from the odd reference to fly fishing and a few sub notes on some web pages it was obvious we would be flying blind. Even the hotel staff couldn’t really help much as most anglers fish the boats only.The beaches on the East Cape are generally steep too and fairly deep very close in….

Firstly, what is a steelhead? Basically, they’re rainbow trout but with a big difference. Although they might look a little like rainbows – but bigger and more vividly coloured – they are rainbow trout that at some point in their lives decide to go to sea and it’s this dose of the salt that makes…

You’ll remember I was wading down a submerged sandbar, formed at the tail of an island that was set long-ways in the middle of the river. Having taken several dace on my first run down the pool, I was almost halfway down for the second time when the fly was seized with great force. Then…

Dave Roberts is the livewire skipper of the AlyKat, a sparkling 35 foot “Bullet” hulled charter boat out of Minehead which works the fish rich waters of the Bristol Channel. I didn’t need a second invitation, the crabs were quickly organised, tank up my venerable Peugeot, sort through my tackle bag and get an early…

Everybody enjoys a bit of sunshine on their faces and a general lessening of average wind strengths, so what about the fishing you can do down here in the Westcountry? Many people will be travelling to various parts of the Westcountry for their annual breaks, and although the current foot and mouth crisis has shut…

Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water. But thereís a new technique, originally pioneered in mid Wales, that proves far more effective and gives the tope the full freedom to fight, and itís fast catching on…

Well, let me assure you that it is just not true; yes, spring may indeed herald the start of thornie fishing in some areas, but down here, if you really went for it, you could quite feasibly catch thornbacks all year round. In the areas that I fish I would go as far as to…

This was the day the sun shone on a slick surfaced sea. The wind was light but still carrying a deceptive chill from the nether regions of the north – but the early Spring sunshine was welcome, surely this was a sign of better things to come!!Shadowing the wreck was a cloud of fish rising…