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Around Scotland there is a fabulous selection of trout lochs, more than could be fished in several lifetimes. I start with what must be one of the most well known, LOCH AWE. The history of Awe is a long and illustrious one with at least 200 years of trout angling tucked under its belt. Being…

Last month, I waxed lyrical about the amazing bone-fishing of the Seychelles. It’s quite new, the bone-fishing. The fish have always been there of course, but it’s only recently that anglers have discovered the potential of these gleaming coral atolls of the Indian Ocean, with their creamy powder-puff lagoons, filled with Bombay Sapphire gin

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let’s get back to Ulan Bator, where I’d arrived after a hellish 28 hours on a train from Beijing, and where I met the man who’d set up my trip who now informed me that the river was a 12-hour ride away aboard a UAZ, a Soviet-built jeep, over…

As we had the driest June on record, I thought I might start with a summertime gag; Sod all to do with fishing but when has that ever stopped me? Here goes then… A guy goes into his back garden to sunbathe but falls asleep in the midday sun, five hours later he wakes to…

As far as I’m concerned an 18″ Bowie knife has very little to recommend it here in Britain, or for that matter anywhere else in the world: in fact, if you’re daft, and macho enough to try toting one around, you’re likely to find yourself enjoying a spot of free accommodation – courtesy of Her…

However as with most so-called “new ideas” in fishing, there is in all truth nothing new about paste baits. Nearly a hundred years ago, both my Great Grandfather and Grandfather were regularly using special pastes. All we have done is develop these ideas using modern ingredients, most of which were not readily available at the…