A couple of days ago I had a long conversation with Dick Derrington on the telephone about the August Bank Holiday angling festival at Evesham. For many years John Smiths Brewery has sponsored the event. Last year saw the last ‘John Smiths’ as the company decided to withdraw it’s sponsorship and many anglers wondered whether…
I was keen to get back after getting to grips with the place and catching bream over 7lb, tench over 6lb 8oz and the icing on the cake, a lovely mirror carp just over 16lb. Another car greeted me as I made my way down the track, the first person I had seen at the…
Look out for new and extremely effective lures from Masterline, in particular their Mirage and Merlin lures. Eddystone have turned the clock back big style with a range of solid tin lures using some unique shapes to give some incredible action in the water. As a direct reaction to this new generation of salt water…
A shout for a Butt Pad will often send the Charter boat skipper and maybe one or two anglers in the charter party rummaging in the bottom of tackle boxes and bags to try and find a pad for the poor unfortunate who is hanging over the stern, rod bent double and a fish of…
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…
Wreck fishing is always associated with the English Channel for pollack, cod, ling and coalfish, or maybe the Northeast off Whitby for big cod and ling. Welsh wrecking has always been the bridesmaid in the wrecking scene. Maybe its because the inshore fishing in Wales is so good that the wrecking takes a back seat,…
The offshore potential of the Seychelles has been an open secret for longer. The islands lie on a relatively shallow plateau that rises out of the great depths of the open ocean. The wide expanses of the Indian Ocean feed huge numbers of fish into the crystalline waters of the islands. Here swim marlin, sailfish,…
Have you seen it then? Piccachu and his cronies? The Pokeman thing. What’s all that about then? Anyone know? No? Me neither.Of course the kid’s Pokeman craze isn’t exactly original, based on swopping a few cards around. We had similar games back in the post-war days (yes, WW2) and my Dad even had ’em when…
FISHING.CO.UK is going weekly, starting next month. Most of our regular monthly articles will continue but we shall also be running both weekly items and a weekly special feature in addition. One of the new additions will be an “As it Happens” column. This will really utilise the potential of the Internet, but it can…
Some hints and tips – My worst scenario was a German who turned up in Madiera in the middle of the marlin season with a Silstar two-piece boat-rod and a Penn Longbeach loaded with 30lb dacron. He was adamant that he was going to catch his first marlin on ‘sporting tackle’. Unhappily, the first marlin…