SATURDAY21st October 2000

Nothing beatsseeing a fish chase a muddler as you strip it across the surface. Oftenthe fish will be half out the water and it will still want to eat your muddler. I anchored the boat some twenty five to thirty yards from the foamswept shore line. Having cast the muddler some seventy feet I started…

Colwick Country Park, Nottingham Colwick Country Park, formed from former gravel workings, is set in 250 acres of woodland, grassland and open water courses that offer a variety of leisure activities from game to course fishing, to a variety of active water sports and leisurely walks. Coarse fishing at Colwick consists of 2.5km of the…

The writer will tell us about seeing barbel glide from under the lush green canopy of weed and begin to feed on the clean gravel. He may also describe how he waits for the barbel to make an appearance and begin to mop up the scattering of sweetcorn he had introduced earlier. We northern anglers…

There are two versions of the Butcher. The original form which used to be called “Moon’s Fly” is now called the “Butcher” whilst the equally good red bearded version is called the “Bloody Butcher”. Materials Hooks: down eye size 14 to size 8. The largest size is used mainly for sea trout or lure fishing…

With blue sky, bright sunshine and a thermometer hitting 85 degrees, I arrived at Somersett Creek on Andros Island on a flooding tide with my guide, a friendly fun loving Bahamian Chuck Thompson. He could spot a feeding bonefish at a 100 feet.

One apparently increasingly contentious issue is the identification of large fish, particularly roach and rudd, which unfortunately have a habit of hybridising both together and with bream. Our two species of bream, silver and common are also not without blame in this whole sorry tale. So, this week I thought I would give a brief…