Penge Angling (Beckenham)

In my role as assistant to John Horsey in the Peregrine/Nomad International Flyfishing Competition I was unfortunately out of the country for the first round event at Rutland, but I had a full report from John. There were no great surprises as Dave Shipman’s Cormorant Fly Fishers team easily won the day with 37 trout….

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Considering that I had just one day on the Ballynahinch, it was a piece of serious luck that I’d drawn Beat One of the Ballynahinch Castle Hotel water which took in the pool immediately below the lough. (A German guest at the hotel, indeed, sidled up to me and wanted to know how much I’d…

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University Challenge. Starter for one. Which organisation is best equipped to run Britain’s fisheries?B-a-a-a-rp. King’s College, Cambridge. “British Waterways”. “Why’s that then,” says Jeremy Paxman.”Simple,” says a spotty youth with double-barrelled surname whose stately home has more bedrooms than the average council estate. “Because they can make a profit out of it.”The Environment Agency and…

But then that might have something to do with the fact that it is and always has been efficient at holding very well on a sandy bottom. Many of us believe that the hole in the middle tends to fill with sand, so increasing the sinkers grip and apparent weight, whatever. “if it works dont…