SATURDAY21st October 2000

Have you seen it then? Piccachu and his cronies? The Pokeman thing. What’s all that about then? Anyone know? No? Me neither.Of course the kid’s Pokeman craze isn’t exactly original, based on swopping a few cards around. We had similar games back in the post-war days (yes, WW2) and my Dad even had ’em when…

Over the Easter holiday, some people spent their time driving to the coast or sitting in traffic jams, others were in the garden or being DIY enthusiasts. Some fished the lakes and canals for the coarse fish, others chased the rainbows on the many stillwaters countrywide. A few fished the rivers and streams for the…

Before starting on my whistle stop tour, I needed to carefully plan my tackle as it had to be very compact whilst still remaining effective. Let’s face it – the average angler has very limited space for tackle when on holiday with the family. It would therefore be unrealistic for me to write an account…

This form of bread is easy to prepare and it is both denser and softer than conventional dry crusts. This bait sinks and more importantly, being softer, the fish tend to hang on longer to the bait giving more positive bites. It is also easier to strike through the bait to catch the fish resulting…

Although I do not believe that we did much harm to the pike, having occasionally caught the same fishes at a later date with the gaff mark healing up, it did occur to me how, as anglers, our general attitude to our quarry has changed. I doubt if there is a single pike angler in…

The telephone shrilled loudly across the darkened room. I struggled to pull myself from the living room chair that had been my bed for the night in the attempt answer it. Another figure lay slumped half on, half off the sofa, male by the look of it. I breathed in stale tobacco ridden air as…