The day was blistering as it can be on the plains of Eastern Mongolia in the very late summer. Johnny and I left the camp and walked across the endless flat flood plain of the Onon river for more than three hours, covering well over ten miles in the broiling heat. The terrain was wild…

Basically the ferox is a brown trout that has over millennia developed a quite distinct lifestyle. Ferox live longer than normal brown trout, eat prey fish (generally char) rather than insect life and grow much, much bigger. Herein lies the excitement of it all: an eight pound ferox is about average, ten to twelve pounds…

Come morning, we headed off to the Vancouver suburb area of Langley City where we found a half-mile long strip of RV operators all side-by-side in a row. Finding one who would rent us a vehicle was less easy as many had closed down their operations, this was high season for sturgeon but not for…

Some of them are good, others not quite so good – and a few are really bloody terrible, providing only the bare essentials and little caring if their customer is satisfied or not. The really bad ones are those surly fellows who look down their noses at their land-lubber customers, treating them with contempt and…

I suppose, personally, everybody views these disasters and their significance differently. Personally, well, I suppose I tend to go with the line of thought that says, when your time is up then theres little you can do about it. Okay, I, like everybody else wont take unnecessary risks but, if I think theyre justified then…

Dont allow yourself to get carried away by on-screen fish marks. Huge shoals and massive fish showing up all the time probably mean that you have the Sensitivity feature turned up too high for the speed at which you are travelling. If you are rowing your dinghy, turn the Sensitivity right down, for even on…

Theyre good to look at, fight tremendously well for their size and are enormously difficult to outwit, the all-round fish indeed but you dont have to trek all the way across the Atlantic to find some superlative black bass sport. No, its here in our own European backyard.The stories go that it was General Franco…

My body was tanned a nice mahogany colour from being at the waterside in the very warm sunshine day after day. The seven weight rod hooped over for probably the twentieth time in as many casts, so good was the fishing. But beware of the Queenfish, it has several spikes situated around its body and…

The local news is after the national, and there, at 1.26 precisely, a sausage midway to my mouth, is an item of how a local fishermen has caught a barracuda some six miles off the south Cornish coast in a net. Film and all. It IS a barracuda, about 10 lbs or so, I guess….

For starters, youll just never find clearer water anywhere and most of the Greenlandic rivers make the Itchen look like a mud hole. Not surprising, really: they flow straight from the Ice Cap with the crystal purity of eternity in their veins. And then there is the number of fish available. Arctic char. As wild…