Spen Angling Centre

THE APPEAL – The capture of a sea trout straight from the salt has got to be one of the biggest thrills in angling. Forget stockies or naturally reproducing brown trout, saltwater sea trout are a race apart. In my neck of the woods these sleek silver specimens, muscled up with the rich feeding of…

Articles by Martin Gay Martin Gay “Martin began his lifelong angling interest at about the age 8 years during a family day out at Billericay Park, Essex. His first fish, caught on a one piece cane rod made up on the day was a gudgeon. He’s had a soft spot for them ever since! At…

Specie: Carp Weight: 15lb 8ozs Location: lodge lake – Milton Keynes This is my personal best caught on my local lake (lodge lake). It`s a mirror carp at 15lb 8oz caught in the evening of 14/7/00 using birdfood boiles and it took me a half hour to land. What a fight! But it was well…

Back down at the lake I have been fishing all spring, the fishing was not quite hectic yet but signs were that all was warming up nicely for a final scenario before I move on to pastures new in mid June. The skies were cloudless but a nice easterly wind was blowing, just right for…

In the relative cool of the early morning Arno and I waded silently across the glassy shallows of the lagoon, eyes peeled for sting rays under our feet, and bones shadowing into range. Away from the surf on the outer reef, it was deathly quiet. Anything more than a whisper would have been quite out…

May nineteen-seventy-eight. All arrangements had been made to leave work at 4pm and drive straight down the M4 to board the ferry at Swansea. We were off to fish Ireland’s river Blackwater for salmon. one of several perch caught on fly the river Blackwater from Fermoy Bridge Me wading the fast & slippery Lugg Pool…