floating bread, with a lead running bomb.
Trophy Room for Stuart Turner Weight: 23 pounds Location: Surrey sandpit23 pounds exactly, my first twenty, and the first twenty to come out of the venue (Surrey sandpit). She took a drifted sprat, got weeded at 50 yards and I needed the assistance of a passing boat to get her out. Weight: 28 lbs 12…
The press frenzy that occurred afterwards was interesting to say the least, but with their need for a sensational story came the downplay of what was actually an incredibly moving and wondrous experience for those on board.Many of you will, I am sure, remember the stories in the angling press from the 70’s and 80’s…
Articles by John Olliff-Cooper John Olliff-Cooper John started his writing career with Angling magazine in the late 1960’s, since when he has contributed to most of the better-known hard copy magazines. Flirted with modernity for a few years, then panicked at the shallow hype of it all, and fled through 180 degrees. Having been properly…
On the big Meadow lake at Somerley I passed a chap in a Trilby hat carrying a lovely Mk.IV and Walker landing net. He even smiled and said ‘Good evening’ which is very unusual at Somerley, where ‘grunt’ is the accepted greeting, and properly enunciated works invoke an incredulous wide-eyed stare.The arguments for and against…
September has certainly been very dry, most rivers are down to bare bones especially in the north of England. As I have said many times, our rivers in the north of England need two good days of rain a week. I don’t feel we can have too much rain, when the rivers are carrying a…
Booze and birds, the mainstay of my formative years, that and fishing of course: Statistically I have spent more time, energy and money on these three simple pleasures than I care to own up to. Still, I’d hate to lie on my deathbed regretting I hadn’t done something constructive with my life. Statistics suck anyway;…