SATURDAY21st October 2000

Catching Mackerel for bait is an enjoyable start to a days fishing. Thread up your rod and attach a set of feathers and within seconds you are fishing. If the mackerel are there in profusion it is not unusual to catch stringfull after stringfull of these vigorous little fish, soon filling a fishbox with enough…

I suspect I am right in saying that the majority of anglers fishing for carp will use boilies for bait. Some of them will regard particles as just another bait, when, in fact, they are much more than that. Fishing particles properly is an angling principle. Particles are a relatively cheap, yet in terms of…

Articles by Russell Symons Russell Symons Russ Symons has been an angling Photographer/Writer for over thirty years, the last twelve of which, writing about and photographing the sea and its fish being his full time occupation. Progressing from a black and white darkroom in the attic of his Plymouth home, to the exacting colour requirements…

Specie: carp Weight: 33lb 9oz This carp at 33lb 9oz is a new PB for my son chris,in a two day session he added six fish to this big mirror four over 20lb. Chris fished GBs new kent mix bait over a big bed of maples & wheat to a hole in the weed at…

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This free fishing venue is a mixed fishery that appears to be improving every year. It is very much a river that has come back from the dead. Typical River Crane chub A fair net of River Crane roach A small barbel-stocked by the Environmental Agency into the River Crane View from the Meadway bridge…