floating bread, with a lead running bomb.
Unless we’ve been given a super-duper new trout rod for Christmas it’s likely most of us will be using a tackle set up similar to previous years. There’s something almost comforting about handling that familiar rod and line again, it’s rather like meeting up with old friends from whom you have been separated and are…
Carp [Species Menu] [Carp articles] Common name: Carp Latin name: Cyprinus carpio Record weight: The current record fish is affectionately known as ‘two-tone’ and is slowly edging towards 60lb. This lovely fish lives in a large gravelpit in Kent called Conningbrook. The current (September 2001) record weight for this fish is 59lb 7oz captured by…
Well, I don’t think I have anyway, though perhaps some of those sea-trout I have picked up here and there over the years might have been salmon. Very few people I know can tell the difference without consulting a textbook. Okay, yeah, I’ve caught lots of parr, but not ‘proper’ salmon, and yet I’ve been…
This of course was no joking matter, but from a river anglers perspective it was dammed inconvenient. As portrayed very graphically by the media, floods were everywhere, but most that hit the headlines concerned areas affected by sustained floodwater over several days and more. There were of course many other floods occurring; flash flooding, where…
Being able to find fish on a lake before you even put your boat in the water is key to a successful day on the water. Looking at a map and being able to read the bottom of the lake and determine the migration route the fish will follow to and from the feeding grounds…
Until this week I was Secretary of Walton Angling Society and like many other clubs they have a work party schedule that costs the members money if they do not attend one. This is great in theory but how are the small clubs ever going to turn members away when they do not bother to…