My route led me around the southern shores of lake Vättern. Well, that’s what it’s called, but to call this huge body of water a lake is to do it no justice, because Vättern is really a great freshwater sea, with beaches, currents, a climate all its own, and a considerable fishing industry. They say…
Location: This is in Ashford, Middlesex. From London take the A30 to Ashford and turn left at the Ashford Hospital cross roads. This is Stanwell Road. Take your third turning on the right down Station Crescent. Turn left down Windsor Road into Queens Walk. At the T junction with Queens Walk turn right. On the…
My wife and I had decided to spend a week on Costessy No3 (near Norwich) pit, she after some big bream, me in the hope of contacting one of the few big twenties that inhabiting this very hard carp water. In those days the water was gin clear and alive with natural food. Someone (I…
September will probably be still warm but the weed will begin to lose its grip. Clear areas will be easier to find, so get in on these first, before others do. Once you find one – I find leading about the best bet to locate them – then bait it up and fish it continuously….
Most of my night fishing trips to the river are solitary ones. Even if I go accompanied it’s rare to find a swim that can accommodate 2 anglers comfortably so I usually find I’m fishing on my own. I’m sometimes asked if I ever find it a bit ‘spooky’ by being out in the dark…
It can be a frustrating sport of ours, this fishing. There’s just so much to it isn’t there? No other sport can compare with angling for variety, and there lies the problem; so many fish and so little time. The way we cope with it is to specialise of course, whether sea, game or coarse,…
OK, so it is a bit of a generalisation. I am certain that it isn’t the fact that it is Monday which is important, and I am sure it won’t necessarily hold true for other rivers. However, by examining the potential reasons for this apparent bias it may help us to understand a little more…
To a certain extent this is true for many anglers must specialise in what is logistically the nearest form of angling to their home. Cost and ease of access often deter us from roving further afield and it is only when we venture off on holiday that we get the chance to experience something different….
Trolling Trolling is a huge subject, far too big to be covered in depth here, but I will attempt to go through the basics and leave the reader to find the many “wrinkles” for himself. It is a method which many people tend to use if they are fishing a water for the first time….
My earliest childhood recollection of being taken fishing is not of catching my first fish but of falling in! My dad had taken me with him and on arrival at the river had waded out into mid-stream to trot for dace. I was left alone on the bank and being a fidgety 4 year old…