SATURDAY21st October 2000

Top team on day one was the local Greys Team, Rutland Water Flyfishers, who amassed 9 more fish than any other team with their 38 trout for 81pounds exactly. The Rutland team had three of their team catch ten-fish limit bags; they were, Paul Wild with 27lbs 5oz, Andrew Flitcroft with 20lbs 12oz and Mike…

At Warren Park you will have a lodge situated at the edge of the New Forest. All the lodges are about 25 yards from the lake where a hundred pound plus bags are not that uncommon. Accommodation: is in one of four purpose built lakeside lodges with two bedrooms. In high season, lets run from…

Even the rivers are losing their mystery to some extent, many of the big fish in them having a ‘name and address’ and being caught time and time again by anglers who camp in the swims, then parade their photographs in weekly angling papers. There are of course exceptions, particularly with big rivers such as…

Bream [Species Menu] [Bream articles] Common name: Common bream Latin name: Abramis brama Record weight: Broken several times in 2001, currently the largest specimen is a fish of 18lb 12oz caught from Bawburgh lake in Norfolk. Distribution: Found throughout Europe and into the borders with Asia. Bream are an important commercial species in Eastern Europe…

The blue-green algae now had a firm grip on the water, and had reduced visibility from around ten feet, to just two or three inches. It looked as if someone had tipped hundreds of gallons of turquoise paint into the water, and with no signs of fish anywhere, I began to think it a waste…

Without doubt the very best winter roach fishing is when the river is high and coloured as long as this condition is not caused by snowmelt water. We need to start looking for the roach where we would expect to find them in summer and then look around to see where they would move to…