In most of the network of channels of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire can be found innumerable zander. Although this is the best place to catch your first zander, fishing conditions during the winter months can be pretty inhospitable. Not only do you have to put up with poor access to many fisheries, but as the main…
The trouble was, the carp and the weather were not really playing ball. After over a week of frost and fog, the weather had slowly warmed up and the first session of the week looked promising with cloudy skies and no wind, perfect conditions. Despite the lack of rain over the previous ten days though…
After the wet, mild conditions of the last few weeks we, in Suffolk, are now several degrees below freezing, with a constant shroud of freezing fog hanging over the East of the country. The river though looks to be in fine fettle. A bit of colour is still hanging in the water and despite the…
The water was very cold and clear, so much more like winter, with the end of the season now visible on the horizon now was the time to put some concentrated effort in, as I knew the carp would soon start moving and would be hungry. The winter on this lake had been a poor…
When I arrived there was just one swim available to fish, and that was really only half a swim, the rest was under water. The whole lake now was so flooded that another foot would have put the water over the track and flowing out of the gate onto the road. Record levels indeed. The…
The Bruce and Walker Hexagraph Multispin 10 100″ Two piece, with one top. Hexagonal carbon with solid carbon fibre spigot ferrule. Hexagraph rods have been around long enough for most anglers to know what they look like: a curious but pleasing amalgam of split cane appearance, with underlying leading edge technology. It is a carbon…
Well, I didn’t have a chance to evaluate the first three, but I’ve got my mind right about the last of them now. I learned, for instance, that last April, when we were freezing our tails off here in England, it was 30° in Sweden – that’s about 86° in proper Fahrenheit weights and measures….
In the 1960’s and 1970’s ABU were regarded as the absolute ‘business’ in tackle. When the Ambassadeur 6000 was launched it was regarded as the World’s best multiplier – by a wide margin. Salmon, pike and bass anglers bought thousands of the things, and I reckon most of them are still going strong. Then came…
On the big Meadow lake at Somerley I passed a chap in a Trilby hat carrying a lovely Mk.IV and Walker landing net. He even smiled and said ‘Good evening’ which is very unusual at Somerley, where ‘grunt’ is the accepted greeting, and properly enunciated works invoke an incredulous wide-eyed stare.The arguments for and against…
It was all very wild, wild enough to claim the lives of many a would-be hero, bent on discovering the source of this or that river, or hoping to make his fortune by re-discovering King Solomon’s lost diamond mine. Africa can still kill you, if you’re stupid enough to venture up places like the Congo…