SATURDAY21st October 2000

Trophy Room for Stuart Turner Weight: 23 pounds Location: Surrey sandpit23 pounds exactly, my first twenty, and the first twenty to come out of the venue (Surrey sandpit). She took a drifted sprat, got weeded at 50 yards and I needed the assistance of a passing boat to get her out. Weight: 28 lbs 12…

In his own words Barrie preferred to pre-bait when the pike were off feed (presumably hoping it may bring them on to feeding). Writing on the same subject, this time in 1985 (Big Pike, Rickards, A&C Black 1986) and with the benefit of 15 years further experience Barrie was in no doubt of the value…

Although this article is in the game section of this magazine it includes pike fishing as well as trout fishing because , on Lough Mask, pike can be caught by all the game fishing methods i.e. fly , trolling and bait (worm or dead bait). The techniques are well covered by Mark Ackerley (Dead baiting)…

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I am off to fish in the Hardy competition at Bewl this weekend and my advance information is that the water is so warm that the fish are off the feed “big time”! In the final eliminator for the National at Bewl last week, the hopeful competitors caught only eight fish. I thought that Chew…

Mahi-Mahi are great fish. They give an angler a fight that he or she will never forget. Mahi-Mahi are also known as Dolphin (not the bottlenose dolphin). Mahi-Mahi make long runs and will often leap out of the water when you are battling them. They are also excellent tablefare. On this adventure, we head down…