SATURDAY21st October 2000

MINI LIST – WEIGHT UP TO 1 LB Species ozs drms kilo-grms Date Captor Location Anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus 1 8 .042 1979 R.H. Wilcox Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales Argentine Argentina sphyracna 5 3 .147 1978 Miller Loch Long, Arrochar, Scotland Barracudina Paralepis coregonoides 1 14 .054 1987 D. Gillon Newton Shore, Ayr, Scotland Blackfish, Cornish…

After my Father died when I was just 6 my angling education was taken up by my great-grandfather. The family had moved to Theale – a village 5 miles west of Reading in the Kennet valley. Grandad had lived in the village all his life and had been the village Bobby for a number of…

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On Monday I went to the Poole Hall complex on a feature for Match Angling Plus magazine. After discussing the venue at length with fishery owner Sid Matthews I settled in on peg 66 on the main match lake, Heron Pool. What followed was a fabulous days fishing with tench providing most of the action….

This verdant area is where a spring bubbles up from the rocky ground. Not a particularly unusual occurrence you may feel – except that, in this case, the spring is the source of a mighty river. A river which is the largest in Scotland, an important navigational asset, hugely consequential in tourism-related terms but perhaps…