Being able to find fish on a lake before you even put your boat in the water is key to a successful day on the water. Looking at a map and being able to read the bottom of the lake and determine the migration route the fish will follow to and from the feeding grounds…

This is Lesley’s 5th book. It’s well written with lots of excellent photographs and is packed full of knowledge gained from her many years working as a trout-fishing guide in the wilds of the Caithness area of Scotland. Pick up the Trout Fishers Handbook and the first thing that strikes you is that it is…

Approximately 20 anglers in the UK drown each year. Lifesavers, The Royal Life Saving Society UK, the countrys leading water safety body, has issued advice to anglers who continue to fish throughout autumn and winter. Di Standley, Chief Executive at Lifesavers, a West Midlands-based organisation, commented: “There are risks to anglers year-round, but in late…

Pike fly leaders can be from two up to nine feet. Fishing a floating line, I use a leader between seven and nine feet which includes a foot of twenty pound wire. Some pike fly fishers have written in the press, You don’t need tapered leaders, others state you don’t need wire. I disagree on…

ComCom(c), the innovative compatible communications company, announces the launch of its hand-cranked mobile phone charger, the Wind-up, available at most branches of the Carphone Warehouse and from its online site, www.carphonewarehouse.com/windup priced at £9.99. The solution for many frustrated mobile phone users – the lightweight yet robust Wind-up enables users to recharge their phone by…

The bead-head Prince nymph landed in the slack water close to the far bank. I gave a small upstream mend and the fast water pushed the line downstream and across to my bank. As it did so I retrieved line, imparting some life in the nymph. As it bounced its way across the bottom I…

Whilst the weather is still pretty changeable, most parts of the country have had a few days of warm temperatures and light Westerly winds – ideal conditions to get the carp moving. Whilst you can stalk carp on some waters most of the time, these conditions really make life a lot easier. Firstly, the air…

On my arrival in Tasmania I was warned by several anglers that I should have brought at least a seven-weight due to the incredibly strong winds that the state experiences. It took little time for me to realise why this warning had been sounded, but I found that the Trident was a good match for…

The river Aire is an excellent coarse and trout fishing water, in the upper reaches of the river from Skipton upstream it’s fly fishing for brown trout and grayling. Bradford City AA own some two miles of double bank fly fishing where grayling have been caught to 3lbs. The fishing starts from the A59 and…

Fly Fishing The Saltwater Shoreline By Ed Mitchell published by Stackpole books, ISBN number 0-8117-0653-2 Many of you will no doubt remember his previous book ‘Fly Rodding The Coast’ by Stackpole books. With more and more of us flying across to the east coast of America for our holidays this latest book from Ed has…