This is the time of year when the Charterboat skippers phone begins to ring and ring, with clubs and individual anglers booking boats and places on the best tides, crossing their fingers that the weather will be kind.This is also the time of year when the tackle comes out from the corner of the garage…

The small boy sat on his haunches watching his father and uncle plaiting and twisting the line. It took very many hours of work and had to be checked at regular intervals for strength. They had been at it since morning and the line was now nearing completion. The Ugly One, the man with the…

The Tiburon is a clean and tidy Offshore 105 which is skippered alternately by Allan Bennett and Graham Hannaford who actually owns the vessel. Although Alís voice was breaking up on the limit of the mobile phone range, I cought enough of the call to understand that he would be in around half past five…

With mild weather, rising water temperatures and the demise of hoof and mouth, anglers can expect some good sort on many waters in the north of England. The river Ribble, probably one of the top ten rivers in the country for game and coarse fishing, is certainly a top venue to head for. Ribchester downstream…

How to fish the waggler by Bill Rushmer, Saturday 1st December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Autumn, Beginner, Coarse, Match, Pleasure, River/Canal, Spring, Stillwater/Lake/Pond, Tackle, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs, Winter Articles related by species: Bream, Carp, Chub, Crucian Carp, Grass Carp, Gudgeon, Hybrids, Orfe, Perch, Roach, Rudd, Tench A waggler is any float that is attached to…

Heavy groundbaiting is usually carried out with a large amount of breadcrumb as groundbait, either brown or white. I personally have never found any difference in either colour though brown has a more prominent smell to us as humans and there may be truth in the possibility that a carpet of white groundbait scares fish…

Tackling the unknown can be a bit nerve wracking, particularly if it is a busy water where there might be lots of eyes watching any newcomer. Funnily enough though, I often find that those first few sessions on a new water can offer some of the best fishing you are likely to get. With no…

The wind was getting back to a westerly so I wondered if the carp might have moved back up the lake, into the channels between the big weed beds. I raced down the hill eager to get my first look at the lake for 4 days.Despite the wind and rain I still did not like…

Although it had only been a few days since my last session, in the area I had been fishing it did not look like the carp were still around as the water had cleared a little and the weed was very visible, as was the brown sandy bottom in places. Therefore I decided to have…

You may recall last week that I predicted the Severn would fish well. Well, I was wrong! It fished really hard in parts, which was a disappointment after the way it had fished in the first couple of weeks of the season. On Saturday I was so close to good swims after drawing peg 12…