SATURDAY21st October 2000

Gary had done one day during the week on the same stretch and had caught a leash of pike, two doubles to over 16lb, and a jack. We arrived in the pre-dawn gloom and set off across the field, it was noticeably muddy as we trudged across and slowly the light strip of the river…

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One of the biggest developments over the last couple of seasons has been the introduction of low diameter braided lines. Although braided lines have been around for many years, and had until recently, lost favour with most anglers, the new generation of braided lines have many advantages which anglers are only just coming to grips…

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I was eventually seduced by one of those luscious brochures put out by Angler’s World Holidays, the Chesterfield specialists in this sort of thing. Their Swedish operator Top Ten Angling had some wonderful places on offer, so I settled down to choose a venue.That’s where the problems started, because they all sounded amazing; too good…