Soar Valley Tackle

Conditions couldn’t have been better for a couple of days barbel fishing on the river Teme. Mike Osborne and myself certainly had a good drive down from the north of England, we didn’t even have any hold ups on the M5 M6 junction. With Mike driving I could relax and read all about the abysmal…

There are several ways of dealing with silkweed depending on its thickness. If the weed is relatively light then the simplest answer is just to lengthen the hook length so that the bait is able to free-fall onto it. The velocity of the bait can be reduced by using Solars dissolving foam over the hook….

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Sometimes this is the baiting situation that I have created, but more often than not it is the rig which they have sensed. Now this might be because of the hook, lead, bait fixing, or main line rising from the bait, but often it is the hook length which appears to be causing the problem….

The classic McNab, in case you didn’t know, is the term used to describe the bagging of a stag, a grouse and a salmon in a single day. The Grand Slam, to a saltwater flyfisher in the tropics involves the capture of a bonefish, a tarpon and a permit over the same period of time,…

I am sure that the Met Office deliberately give us pessimistic forecasts so that we are pleased when it turns out better than their multi-million pound state of the art computers have predicted. My pal Mike Concannon had spent months organising the Eagle Claw Dartmouth Plaice Festival, he was putting on a brave face, telling…