SATURDAY21st October 2000

The Teign is justly famous for its large flounder. Not so well advertised, but very highly regarded locally is the Fowey, the Exe, areas around Kingsbridge and lately the Plym estuary which is just a mile or so from where I live. These estuaries will see several of these four pounds plus fish caught over…

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…

New species are being targeted (bass and pike fly-fishing are relatively common), tackle technology has gone through the roof and it is no longer unusual for a fly angler to pack a suitcase (or even brief case!), in the hope of some fly sport abroad. The only problem to confront when considering this last point…

Catfish [Species Menu] [Catfish articles] Common name: Wels catfish Latin name: Silurus glanis Record weight: Weight recognised by the British Record Fish Committee is 62lb caught by Richard Garner from Withy Lake in Bedfordshire in 1997. This fish is unlikely to be ever beaten as although several much larger fish have been caught the record…

Ash Rapids Lodge Address: Post Office Box 1090KenoraOntarioCanada P9 3X7 Tel: UK 1 800 465 1095 Email: ashrapid@voyageur.ca Web: www.clintonsashrapidslodge.com We are located on a beautiful Lake in the woods of Northwest Ontario and offer some of the best fishing available in Canada. Go Back In TimeAcross the vast forests and rocky terrain of the…

Enthused by a wonderful couple of days in March at Kiwayu, of the coast of North Kenya, when we had had fine sport taking Koli-Koli (aka Golden Trevally) on the fly, as they in their turn preyed upon the shoals of sardines, I dared to suggest to Belinda that we once again ventured down to…