It was a shock when I caught This 9lb.8oz Ghost. I was floating crust by some flotsome, then just about to reel in when a mouth came out of the water and took the crust.
Gard is in the south of France, on the west bank of the river Rhone, and its principle cities include Montpellier, Nimes and Ales. There are two main river systems which are completely different in character. The Gardon system rises in the foothills of the Cevennes mountains, and meanders slowly across the rich farmland of…
Lately I have been fishing the Skerries for the early Plaice, and the rough ground off the back of the Hands Deep about 10 miles south of Looe in Cornwall. Drifting a boat over this sort of ground whilst fishing for flatfish, whiting, cod and so on, is a superb method of finding the fish….
Sometimes there are just not enough tides in the week for all that fishing, travelling and bait collecting us cod nuts have to do in order to feed our addiction. But do you ever stop and think of what else actually swims out there during the colder months? It is so easy to fish for…
Obviously, there is no great cut-off point, where you suddenly decide that in the next field you have moved from, say, the upper river to the middle river, and therefore a change of approach is needed. The transition from one area to another, and the change of approach that is required, is much more subtle…
Some of the advantages offered by using a boat are fairly obvious while others are a little more subtle. Lets take a look at a few of them. Distance Ever sat blanking on a big water while watching shoals of fish turning over well out of casting range? I know I have, lots of times….
I run a young company called Ebro Enterprise & Leisure (E.E.L.). My partner Derek who lives in England came out for his last trip of the year before the river started to flood, to try and get the elusive 100lb + Catfish that had managed to elude him for the whole of the year. On…