Location: near York. Turn right off of the A19 to Fulford at Crockey Hill so that you are heading towards Wheldrake. The fishery and caravan site are sign posted on your left.Address: Pool Bridge Farm Lakes, Crockery Hill, York, YO19 4SQ Contact: Ron or Dave Fletcher Phone 01904:637854/620304/63340Lakes: There are four lakes in the complex….

The centrepin reel is a great tool for close up fishing, where we really need to get in close contact with our intended quarry. In most situations, of course, a fixed spool reel would do the job but fishing is all about having fun and there is no doubt that using a centrepin is all…

Many of the top names in angling are now writing regularly for us, and all of the disciplines of our sport are so very well represented. With many anglers talking about a reduction in the numbers taking up the sport, and the anti anglers out there to get us at any opportunity, I am pleased…

He was sure of one other thing too, he was the best pike angler there was or ever had been! Vinnie s record spoke for itself, hundreds of twenty and thirty pound pike lined Vinnie’s photograph album. In pride of place, on the front cover, sat a picture of Vinnie’s biggest pike, a huge snaggle-toothed…

Presuming that you have found the fish then big rudd aren’t particularly difficult to catch. In all, there are four tactics which I commonly use for them, some pretty much text book stuff, others a little different. Never follow one method slavishly, each is designed to catch fish in certain circumstances and only those circumstances….

It tends to get a bit crowded with more anglers than that. On the particular week in question we had a couple of our regular guests staying, but the rest were new to us. Colonel Jameson and the Rev. Thomas we knew of course, they have been coming here for over twenty years, and Mr…

It was probably my Headmaster, Mr. Bleasdale’s constant exhortations that we should be charitable that caused my conversion to Zealot. I was a zealous champion of the misunderstood, and of the underdog, and there were quite a few underdogs at Bartholomews, cheapest of all cheap preps that fed its poor charges into schools that were…

Janice called me back to help her lift some crates. When I returned I to the bar I half expected the old tramp to be gone but he was still sitting there, his eyes fixed thousands of miles away. He continued his story as if there had been no interruption. His original soft cockney accent…

I don’t really know how I ended up helping out at the pub that night. I didn’t really want to do it but Sid, the landlord, was an old friend and had conned me into it, just standing in for him for an evening, while he and his wife went on the family rounds, delivering…

Wop-wop-wop-wop-wop… As the Lieutenant completed his cast, his attention was drawn upwards. In the reflection of his mirrored sunglasses, the source of the noise became apparent. Three Hueys powered past low overhead, the sound of the rotors fading as they passed over the jungle tree-line, half a mile away. The Lieutenant watched them disappear, then…