We do know a good deal about mahseer fishing because of both the past and the present. During the time that the British occupied India, the golden Raj, a great many English sportsmen in the army and civil service fished for mahseer in their vacation periods. Denied the salmon fishing of home, the Ďsahibsí travelled…

Most pirks that you buy off the Internet or from the pages of a magazine do not come equipped with a plastic or hair skirt these days, because this is another dextrous manual operation which costs money and detracts from the manufacturers apparent competitiveness when selling in a highly cost conscious marketplace. Fitting these brightly…

In hard rock areas where through the warmer months fish such as pollack and bass can be caught, where the fingers of rock jut out into deeper waters, by putting the spinning gear away too soon you will often miss some unexpectedly good sport. It is a fact that during October and November, sometimes even…

Trolling is a method much used by inshore artisanal fisherman as the modern parlance likes to call them(Euro speak). In other words full time professional fishermen who use small boats handlining for mackerel, trolling for bass and pollack combined with a bit of potting and sometimes even a bit of netting. I have no argument…

A supreme predatorApart from being so majestic to look at, the bass is a real predator that relies on its inbuilt senses to home in on available food sources; the shore angler may have visions of a large solitary bass moving up a gully to search for crustaceans, whereas a boat angler perhaps chases the…

You are sitting quietly, expectantly at the back of the boat; the boat man is trolling at speeds that initially make you think it is far too fast; the echo sounder indicates rugged territory beneath you and the first of several ‘blips’ show at around 20 feet. Your heart races, surely there will be a…

There are no secrets in my life any more. When you have seen the elephant, so called secrets become irrelevant in the great scheme of things. So I tell these curious anglers precisely where to go, exactly where to park their car and the lures to use. Funny how when I go fishing at these…

This was the day the sun shone on a slick surfaced sea. The wind was light but still carrying a deceptive chill from the nether regions of the north – but the early Spring sunshine was welcome, surely this was a sign of better things to come!!Shadowing the wreck was a cloud of fish rising…

After the first few warm days they came become indifferent, spending their days sunbathing in the river. You can still enjoy good sport though even when the fish appear to be totally uninterested in feeding using a very simple and underrated method. I donít think that anyone ever showed me how to fish the lasher….

Spot on – DR PAUL GARNER by Dr Paul Garner, Monday 24th December, 2001 Articles related by topic: Beginner, Coarse, Experienced, Specialist, Stillwater/Lake/Pond, Terminal Tackle/knots/rigs, Watercraft Articles related by species: Bream, Carp, Catfish, Chub, Crucian Carp, Grass Carp, Orfe, Perch, Pike, Roach, Rudd, Tench, Zander It has been said innumerable times that the most important…