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We chose a misty day in late summer, arriving at the boat moorings just as the early morning sun rose in the sky, causing the cloud to dissipate in wraith-like fingers around Ben Vorlich and its satellite hills, illuminating the little village of Lochearnhead on the far shore. A ray of sunlight glanced off the…

Peg 84 on the Quarry Park section of the Shrewsbury match length saw me take first place with 12.14.0 of roach and dace on the waggler. I must admit I didn’t really fancy the draw when I pulled it out of the bag as there were a lot of good anglers on what I thought…

Mark Ackerley’s Pike Report – Lake of Menteith – Sat 6th November40 anglers from all over the country assembled for the 9 am kick-off. Weather was good initially but a strong wind blew up later. Fishing was with lures and deadbaits only. All fish under seven pounds were transferred to another water, all other fish…

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Anglers older than myself tell me that rudd were once common, yet nothing could be further from the truth now. Where they do survive, it is likely that you will find them in all the waters in a locality. It would seem that pure alkaline water is almost essential for rudd, and as the water…

Basically the ferox is a brown trout that has over millennia developed a quite distinct lifestyle. Ferox live longer than normal brown trout, eat prey fish (generally char) rather than insect life and grow much, much bigger. Herein lies the excitement of it all: an eight pound ferox is about average, ten to twelve pounds…