SATURDAY21st October 2000

The night was upon me but at least I had sorted out the mud problem by putting wood under the bedchair legs to stop me sinking into the soft ground. Despite the line bites the first real bite did not occur until just before midnight when the rod cast to the bush gave a few…

‘WHOAA !!’ shouted Jeff at the top of the ladder beside me and I whipped around from peering into the fishfinder. ‘LONG CORNER !!’ and he was gone down into the cockpit. I saw the fish clearly then, bill out of the water, the fish acting like a sailfish at a teaser. The fish faded…

Articles by Clive Gammon Clive Gammon Born in 1929 in Swansea, just out of casting range of the West Pier where, about six years later and with the help of my grandfather and with a greenheart rod, landed my first fish – a whiting. In a way I was lucky to be growing up during…

The companys founder Malcolm Grey, left that famous company House of Hardy to set up Greys: interestingly, his company has recently rejoined the Hardys fold, and it is presumably this merger that has allowed Greys to branch out into reel production. To their credit, theyve taken the brave step of introducing an original design of…

Fishmongers Hall London was the scene of a ground-breaking initiative bringing together angling organisations from Europe and the USA. Representatives of the European Angling Alliance (EAA) met with Jim Donofrio, Executive Director of the US-based Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) and agreed on mutual support in achieving their common objective of sustainable fisheries management. Jim Donofrio…