The last decade or so has seen huge growth in the range of flavours available to the coarse angler. This culminated last month in the launch of Ultrabite which is being put on the market with such extravagant claims as to its efficacy that there are already mutterings about whether or not it should be…

Did I just make that up or did someone else get in first? I’m not sure but whoever said it first, it has more than just an element of truth. My fishing trips this year have been far too few and I’ve decided that I must either work less or abandon the family a little…

In the relative cool of the early morning Arno and I waded silently across the glassy shallows of the lagoon, eyes peeled for sting rays under our feet, and bones shadowing into range. Away from the surf on the outer reef, it was deathly quiet. Anything more than a whisper would have been quite out…

Modern carp fishing is still in its infancy over there but though the British influence has been a major factor in the development of French carp fishing, the French themselves have been quick to embrace the concept of the bivvy, bedchair and boilie approach to carp fishing and nowadays a widespread No-Kill policy is strictly…

All habitat work on fisheries has come to a full stop. Thankfully anglers have shown great responsibility by staying away from the rivers and streams. Most walkers have stayed off the public footpaths and away from the fields. It’s surprising what the prospect of a 5000 pound fine will do! Sadly many irresponsible dog owners…

Imagine a place where you can stalk twenty pound plus carp off the surface in January. Where the sun always seems to shine and where life is easy. Too good to be true? Well believe it or not, such a place does exist and is only a four hour flight from the UK. More and…

On the internet we are not restricted by paper costs and my editor, Geoff Maynard, believes that readers deserve to know the full facts about a review product rather than a cosmetic look at the item. To this end, my review of tackle will give a detailed account of how the product performed under live…

Back To The Waterside April can certainly be a month of change. This month will often start with very cold easterly or north easterly winds, clear night skies and frost, sometimes it even snows. A week later we can have some delightful spring weather with warm sunny days and light south westerly winds. Hopefully we…

They’re good to look at, fight tremendously well for their size and are enormously difficult to outwit, the all-round fish indeed but you don’t have to trek all the way across the Atlantic to find some superlative black bass sport. No, it’s here in our own European backyard.The stories go that it was General Franco…

Fellow angling writer Jason Inskip offered a simple cure for my bone-fever: ‘Get yourself off to the Seychelles my boy.’ The Seychelles Islands lie in the Indian Ocean, just below the equator, about 1,000 miles off the East African coast. Amongst knowing bone-fisherman, these islands have an almost mythical reputation. I gave myself two weeks…