There was a massacre, but not in the sense that many fish were caught and it was a poor fishing day in terms of large fish. This expedition to Malindi on the Kenya coast, was to be the culmination of three previous fishing expeditions, and the result of reading many articles about fishermen who had…

It began at 9 oclock with the firing of a canon by Moerrums fishery manager Stefan Persson. The river had been in flood up to three week previous, but the good weather enabled the flow to fall to 73 cubic meters per second. It took only 10 minutes before the first fish was landed, a…

My original plan had been to investigate some of the big lakes of southeast Europe in Slovenia, Hungary, northern Italy and southern Austria. Id even been as far as Lake Balaton just to the southwest of Budapest. But I quailed at the sight a lake too far for me, Im afraid. I decided to make…

I am therefore blaming age for realising that I am spending more time in front of the box, and now that there is so much fishing available to view, I have become a bit of an armchair angler. Some of the programmes are excellent too, and bring back plenty of memories of fishing that I…

I left you last week as I was preparing to fly off to Swedish Lapland for a tourism conference, some dog sledding and ice fishing. Arriving at Manchester I was told I couldn’t take a four piece ten weight rod on board as hand luggage, though my walking stick which could be used as a…

I had come to this Seychelles out-island partly to relive an astonishing encounter with a vast population of huge bonefish and giant trevally which lived in abundance on a neighbouring island, only reachable by boat and under the tutelage of expert local guides. But most importantly, I wanted to see if I could catch fish…

Carp match results are particularly revealing, but so too are ordinary match results which are often won by captors of very large carp that have been played for hours on end. I discovered a match lake in Brittany that regularly produced weights in excess of fifteen kilos, often the result of the capture of one…

Theyve been fact finding rather more than intensive fishing and Ive notched up something like eight or nine thousand miles travelling in my search for really good waters. Ive travelled with two Spanish friends and theyve shown me all their secrets, built up painstakingly over many years. This being the case, I know youll pardon…

Ive fished all the Isles but, in the end, I guess it comes down to the Uist both north and south that get my vote as my own personal favourite. There are two ways to get there: you can be relaxed about things and take a day or two travelling and finally catch a ferry…

Haddock [Species Menu] [Haddock articles] Common name: Haddock Latin name: Melanogrammus aeglefinus Record weight: A relatively small member of the cod family, yet an extremely important commercial species. Haddock tend to be found in quite deep water, so the boat record is considerably greater than the shore best. Boat anglers should set their sights on…