SATURDAY21st October 2000

But I do have several photo’ albums, and occasionally I glance through them and remember much of my lifetime of angling. Just one picture can bring back so many memories, as the brain’s ability to wander from thought to thought multiplies that one picture into many others. Flashbacks!For example, I found a picture of my…

Crayfish pick up the wrong signals Scientists are using the pulling power of pioneering ‘sex traps’ to lure invasive alien crayfish from British waters. In an innovative research project sponsored by the Environment Agency and English Nature, alien North American signal crayfish are being tricked into thinking they’ll be shown a good time if they…

Nowhere is this more true than in the Scottish borders where the sad demise of once-magnificent salmon fishing has caused many clubs to consider alternative means of attracting anglers to their waters – and of course, income to their coffers! As a consequence, over the last few years increasing numbers of anglers have taken advantage…

Canadian St. Lawrence Carp Club Canadian St. Lawrence Carp ClubCanadian St. Lawrence Carp Club The Inn By The Park 22 Sir James Morris Drive PO Box 1157 Morrisburg, K0C 1X0Tel: 001 613-543-0600Fax: 001 613-543-0693 Email: canadian.carp@fishing.co.uk Website: http://carp/accom.html A Canadian St. Lawrence Carp Club fishing trip is the trip of a lifetime and one you…

This month is generally speaking the last chance to make the most of warmer water conditions prior to the lower temperature of late autumn having its effect on water temperature and all fishes metabolic rates. With this in mind I will be continuing what has seemed to be a recent trend of introducing anglers who…

They’re good to look at, fight tremendously well for their size and are enormously difficult to outwit, the all-round fish indeed but you don’t have to trek all the way across the Atlantic to find some superlative black bass sport. No, it’s here in our own European backyard.The stories go that it was General Franco…