SATURDAY21st October 2000

First off – wreckfishing. How about loading a big fixed-spool reel (say an Emblem 6000 or similar) with 20lb braid, matching it to a heavy-duty 7í spinning rod (say an UglyStick) and banging your pirks and hopper-rigs far beyond the wreck as you drift down on it, similar to what many Europeans and Yanks do,…

I always have fishing of some sort or other passing through my mind each day, for it is difficult not to when one lives by a river, and searches it for new inhabitants every time one walks the banks. Just three years ago. Kay plays a mackerel shark Over 20 years ago in Ireland. Kay…

They search the back eddies and rip tides for sandeel’s, gobies, baby pollack as well as tasty morsels such as prawns, soft crab and worm.It is wonderful to be on a beach or rock mark in a pair of shorts and a light shirt on a balmy summers night, but nice as these conditions are…

“98% waterproof” ???? It used to be a grim choice in Winter: you could have warm, dry feet and baulk at the very idea of walking – hobbling – more than a few yards; or you could be mobile, but spend most of the day in abject discomfort, convinced that this is what the onset…

Dace [Species Menu] [Dace articles] Common name: Dace Latin name: Leuciscus leuciscus Record weight: 1lb 4oz 4 dram. Caught by J. L. Gasson from the Little Ouse River in Norfolk in 1960. Distribution: Once very common in the UK, dace, and particularly large dace, are becoming increasingly rare. Possible reasons for the decline in dace…

Tuesday 10 December 2002 Press Release MINISTER GIVES GO AHEAD TO BRITISH DISABLED ANGLING ASSOCIATION Minister for Sport, Richard Caborn MP has given the green light for the British Disabled Angling Association (BDAA) to become the organisation that will provide access to angling for nine million disabled people. The Minister has confirmed that all sporting…