SATURDAY21st October 2000

It was a bit of an accident going there in the first place. Originally I had intended to take Belinda to Cape Town, but at this time of the year it is too cold. We then thought about Eritrea, but once again, at this time of the year, down on the coast it is too…

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

For me, 2000 AD was the year of the bluefin tuna – you can read all about that in this sites archives. 2001, though, will be, I hope, the year in which I’ll take the first tentative steps toward catching the first broadbill by angling in the waters around these islands.

The day was blistering as it can be on the plains of Eastern Mongolia in the very late summer. Johnny and I left the camp and walked across the endless flat flood plain of the Onon river for more than three hours, covering well over ten miles in the broiling heat. The terrain was wild…

The lake was still quiet, just me there, rain was forecast but the wind that had helped me on the session before had gone. I had seen carp roll consistently in an area of the lake opposite the swim I fished last time so I drove straight round there. In the swim in question the…

Dever Springs was the venue and here is home of the whoppers, despite what a certain burger chain advertise to the contrary. The day was a fundraiser for the Second Chance Charity, consequently almost everyone there was famous or well-heeled or both – though perhaps well-tyred is a better description after seeing some of the…