There are by now fewer anglers fishing my local gravel pits which means that there is less feed going in and less chance of finding another angler fishing my prebaited swim. The fish on the other hand are starting to feed up for the long winter when they will become far less active. I believe…

I only had a couple of weeks in which to conduct some basic research before the trip was scheduled. Information coming from Richard Sheard (who will be organising future up river trips through his company World Sport Fishing) told me about catfish and the infamous tigerfish, but that was about it. We knew that sawfish…

As I write, I’m looking out of my office window down on a perfect looking river Severn that I can’t fish again until June 16th. The powers that be decided to keep with the traditional shut down, despite research that indicated there was no real reason to do so. In my opinion the three-month break…

Sometime after the publication of the book, the river Bain once more came to my notice when Richard Walker fished the second of a three leg match on the river against Tom Sails, the Lincoln AA team captain in the early 1950’s. For many years I had planned to fish the water but as usual…

With the final cessation of the rain came a period of dry weather. Sunny days followed by frosty nights, in fact foggy nights. Not ideal for carp fishing in February so when my long term fishing mate Gary phoned to say he had been to the special spot on the river Thames and found the…

The winter in the Trndelag area was extremely dry with very little rain and only a little snow. Therefore we did not expect a spring flood caused by the snow melt early in the season. Early in May the temperatures reached a very comfortable level and the first salmon had been seen in the middle…

This year a lot of anglers will be going abroad to try for that first big catfish. The fact that continental cats are so much easier to catch than our UK ones is one reason and another is that they grow so much bigger! And big cats draw anglers like Leonardo Decaprio attracts women.The UK…

In late December 1999, armed with a couple of telescopic rods and various lures, I travelled with a friend from Goa through to Kathmandu then back to Delhi overland for 7 weeks. It was only while I was sitting on the bank of the Babai river in western Nepal, surrounded by rhino dung and young…

He was the Dick Walker of pre-war England, and as such was employed by Hardyís to endorse their high quality bottom-fishing rods and reels, which bore his name. The Hardy No.1 Wallis Avon was the Rolls-Royce of pre-war coarse fishing rods, and good examples now command high prices. The exquisite little Hardy Wallis centre-pin is…

Now I want to examine in a bit more detail the mechanics of actually getting to your chosen venue. In other words, booking the correct ferry route, mastering the French road system and the unique French manner of driving which is somewhat hairy to say the least.First take a look at an example of how…