If you’re an angler and saw the movie ‘The Perfect Storm’ then I’d bet that you came away, as I did, with two abiding images. The first would be of the longliner tk, out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, climbing the glassy, impossibly steep, underside of a huge swell and, inevitably, being flipped over and swallowed by…

What sad creature perpetrated that? I thought. And then I realised that I actually knew who was behind it, because I’d met her. That was back in the ’80s, in the USA, in a field near the little town of Higgins, Pennsylvania. She was an Englishwoman named Ingrid Newkirk and she was leading a PETA…

To re-cap, there were three pairs of anglers fishing for what was hailed as sports smallest trophy – the Golden Maggot. Points were awarded for the number of different species you caught in a more or less sleepless 72 hours. And, to add to the fun, dirty tricks were allowed.I was partnered with Gareth Edwards,…

If it hadn’t been such a sad and serious subject, I’d have had a good laugh over the sorry way that our Minister responsible for Britain’s fisheries, the Rt Honourable Elliott Morley , floundered when questioned on BBC 2 the other day about the North Sea cod problem and the new, limited, restrictions that have…

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Articles by Clive Gammon Clive Gammon Born in 1929 in Swansea, just out of casting range of the West Pier where, about six years later and with the help of my grandfather and with a greenheart rod, landed my first fish – a whiting. In a way I was lucky to be growing up during…

Do you have to fly for ever, seemingly, to find waters unexploited? Do you have to pump yourself full of injections and malaria tablets before you can travel to a country that gives you a marvellous sense of freedom and space? Of course not. In fact, for 80 or so and slightly more minutes you…

Ravensthorpe’s new season got off to a record breaking start this weekend with a fantastic 13lb 10oz rainbow trout taken by top angler Dave Barker of Hardwick, Cambridge. Dave now has the unique distinction of holding two records for rainbow trout at Anglian Water reservoirs as he still holds the Grafham Water record with a…

The year must have been 1965, and I was a six-year old in a fish market on the Greek coast, eyes popping out at the sight of a bluefin bigger than myself, and I distinctly remember my mother dragging me away forcibly from the fish counter, my heels smoking against the floor. I never knew…