Southend Angling Centre

The 2001 show was held at Shuttleworth this past weekend and, in my role as an instructor, I attended on Friday and took part in two two-hour shifts of teaching. The Salmon and Trout Association take a particular pride in encouraging youngsters: thus it is quite natural that one of the stalls they run at…

Take the current trend amongst certain groups of anglers for using huge amounts of bait. A new technique? No, the professional barbel anglers of the Thames half a century and more ago habitually baited with many stones of groundbait and thousands of worms to keep the best lays filled with fish. The old pro’s were…

I will concentrate on carp in this piece but may stray to other species if space allows. Right, where do we start? Well, the many articles written in the weekly and monthly angling magazines about winter carp fishing are correct, with respects to the basics, so I will start with them. First of all do…

I always have fishing of some sort or other passing through my mind each day, for it is difficult not to when one lives by a river, and searches it for new inhabitants every time one walks the banks. Just three years ago. Kay plays a mackerel shark Over 20 years ago in Ireland. Kay…

The first session of the week however was still cold, though at least the day was sunny and, with a good imagination, just about spring-like. When I turned up I could see the water level had dropped almost to normal, well the water was at least within the banks of the lake. One of my…

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…