Skegness Fishing Tackle

Species that appreciate warmer water, particularly carp and tench, go from being just about catchable to ‘well up for it’. For tench in particular the difference between one week and the next can be incredible, and so it was for us this year. Normally I find it difficult to maintain my interest in a water…

Enthused by a wonderful couple of days in March at Kiwayu, of the coast of North Kenya, when we had had fine sport taking Koli-Koli (aka Golden Trevally) on the fly, as they in their turn preyed upon the shoals of sardines, I dared to suggest to Belinda that we once again ventured down to…

We like to catch a few carp each year, but rather than go to some overstocked water where the fish are hungry, or spend days and days waiting for a run from some well known monster that likes to get its picture in the angling journals occasionally, we pop over to Canada for a week…

Firstly, two of last year’s team members are just not interested in fishing with the rest of us. Understandably, teams go their different ways from time to time. This is obviously Bristol’s time to “split”. Of those of us left at least two are simply not prepared to devote the time to go down to…

Specie: chub Weight: ? Location: nr Doncaster The Chub and the Barbel were both caught on the same mission. They do like luncheon meat! What weight do you think they are, as I didn’t have any scales about as I was travelling light moving up and down the river with the perfectly visible fish. They…

It was all very wild, wild enough to claim the lives of many a would-be hero, bent on discovering the source of this or that river, or hoping to make his fortune by re-discovering King Solomon’s lost diamond mine. Africa can still kill you, if you’re stupid enough to venture up places like the Congo…