SATURDAY21st October 2000

. Catering for both boat and bank angler, the water is one of the first in the country to open after the winter shut-down, having a prestigious official opening day each February. This is always quite a ceremony, with pipers piping and whisky flowing and famous faces popping up all over. But this particular February…

Whilst we were visiting the water to do our feature finding hopefully we chose nice sunny calm days so we had a chance to see some of the fish we hoped to catch as well. Certainly if we found areas of snags or the early signs of lily beds then we should have seen the…

This month we have yet another competition, tackle and fishery reviews, plus the usual feast of articles for you to consume. There is, as always, something for everyone here, from the dedicated big game angler to the guy under the green brolly on the canal. Please, don’t just read about your favourite discipline, because you’ll…

Anglian Waters report: by Guest Contributor, Monday 14th October, 2002 Articles related by topic: Game/Fly Fishing, Venue Articles related by species: Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout Rutland Water Jim Moncur, Keith Malcolm, and Michael Soutar, from Perthshire, Scotland, spent five days at Rutland, mainly fishing from the bank and recorded forty fish, with rainbows up to…

The bite was familiar; bump, bump, pulllll !!!A few swift turns on the reel to take up the slack line, the weight of the fish pulled the rod over into a carbon cracking curve as I piled on the pressure to get the fish away from the red rusted hulk that had been sheltering the…

Crucian carp [Species Menu] [Crucian carp articles] Common name: Crucian carp Latin name: Carassius carassius Record weight: Despite several fish being accepted and then dropped from the record list because of miss-identification, the current record of 4lb 8oz caught by Jay Allen from RMC Angling’s Summer pit is a fully authenticated record. Distribution: The crucian…