With the sun beating down I’m sure that many of you will be looking forward to your summer break over the next few weeks. How many of you have thought about taking a bit of fishing gear along and perhaps stealing a couple of hours here and there? Perhaps the thought of carting around loads…

Last weekend saw Chew Valley Lake host the “Hidden Teams” competition that Bristol Water sponsor to the fantastic amount of one thousand pounds. Lee Sennigton and Geoff Lambert just before completing their double limit. 2 – Organiser Mark Withyman works out the results. 3 – Lee Sennington and Nik Long with a brace of good…

This week has been really busy on the angling front for yours truly but I’m sorry to report I’ve only had one section win in the three matches I’ve competed in on the Severn. Wednesdays midweek Bewdley open saw me draw peg 31, a peg known to locals as “The feeder gobbler” and now I…

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After last year’s all-time record season on the Gaula, the new 2001 season opened on the water of the Norwegian Flyfishers Club with high hopes. 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…

In response to emails asking me about the planer-board article in last months edition, here’s a piece about continental river-catting – including the standard method for it, the Bottle Rig. Dr Paul Garner with a 143lb cat taken on a wobbled dead-bait 89lbs – drifted livebait from a boat Gordy Howes with one of last…

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…

With a hunting ban back on the political agenda, threats to angling will almost certainly follow. Whatever your views on the bloodsports issue one thing’s clear – anglers have got to start gearing up to defend their sport. Matt Taylor reports… Fishing’s just as bad as foxhunting and hare coursing, it’s hunting fish. Such is…

DO try to time your visit out of the prime August holiday period. If you can go in September you’ll find everything a lot quieter and accommodation easier to come by. My sources also indicate that the fishing is very probably better once the real heat of the summer begins to recede a little. DO…

Sometimes, somewhere, nice things can happen. Christmas in the middle of summer. Three consecutive days of fishing in the middle of June, enough memories to sustain me through cold winters and grey skies when blue water is far away. A nice big-eye for Jack Reece The snooter at work on a quiet fish All hail…