Three hours later, and an education in flying and navigation procedure, we landed at Vilanculos. A bustling little harbour town, fast trying to recover from a lengthy civil war.Passing through, one sees the worn down splendour of old Portuguese colonialism. The architecture, desperately trying to heal itself and help recreate the paradise this place once…

The bread flake hookbait drifted slowly down into the depths, sometimes hiding itself amongst the free samples. I twitched the line to ensure I was watching the correct piece of white dust. I was. From the corner of my eye I watched the mullet shoal come in, voraciously savaging the tiny particles, racing each other…

At the end of 1999 they appealed for anglers to join a shark tagging program to be known as 2000 UK Shark Tagging Programme. Now, as we enter 2001, the preliminary results of the first years tagging have become known.A staggering 1000 sharks of various species have been tagged.The 1000th tag was attached to a…

‘ Nice tuna,’ he said. ‘Uh uh,’ I replied. ‘ I don’t think so.’I hardly get the words out of my mouth before Jeff throws the ju-ju sign at the bait on the long corner. Incredulously, within seconds, a long brown shadow appears behind it and like a consummate magician Jeff calmly says, ‘There she…

So, there you are, replete with good food and a pink wife (or was it a good wife and pink food ? I can’t remember…………….). The sand has finally worked its way into your beer, the kids have disappeared along the beach with the last of your foreign currency, and you haven’t taken a single…

One of the main areas is along the East Cape of Baja where, it is said, there are more marlin concentrated in a small area than occurs anywhere else.The marlin are mainly striped marlin averaging around 150lbs, but some are running up over 200lbs and youíre always in with an outside chance of a 500lb…

However, since at the moment all we’re doing is getting the boat into shape and rigging tackle until next week, I’m not going to bother you with an account of which bit goes where on a boat. Instead, I’ll give you the gist of a long conversation which I had with the venerable Peter B…

After doing some serious celebration involving copious amounts of champagne, a new car, the cottage on the coast and damage to a variety of stores and shops, your new glamorous girlfriend says ‘yes’ to the idea of some sun, and you start to think of something to do with yourself in between spending all the…

With the final cessation of the rain came a period of dry weather. Sunny days followed by frosty nights, in fact foggy nights. Not ideal for carp fishing in February so when my long term fishing mate Gary phoned to say he had been to the special spot on the river Thames and found the…

I could not believe my eyes as I unlocked the gate, there in one of the two fishable swims was the unmistakable sight of the back of a bivvy. As I drove in and locked the gate again a head stuck up above the ramparts. It was one of the summer regulars, after a quick…