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The rod tip bucked and kicked yet again, the angler smiled quietly to himself as the fluorescent orange spotted Plaice flared and kited in the translucent green water sweeping hard over the legendary Skerries sandbanks, to the West of Dartmouth.This fish was no fluke of chance, it was the result of weeks of detailed planning,…

I know that I am not alone in this, so it is a good time to talk about the welfare of our pike and zander stocks. Although often portrayed as ferocious predators, once on the bank these fish are amongst the most delicate you will ever come across. Big pike and zander are rare creatures….

The great advantage of floating boilies is that, like conventional boilies, they are very resistant to the attacks of smaller fish. You do not need to worry about your bait not being there on the hook. There is also the added advantage that the bait, being hard, is unlikely to come off the hook when…

Chub and big roach in particular have been putting a regular bend in the rod and a lot of these fish wouldn’t have been captured without the new floats, I am sure. So what’s so good about the new designs? Well, quite simply these designs take over where more traditional peacock, sarcandas reed or plastic…

There are a lot of big roach around at present and I’m praying for a good draw on one of the shallow roach pegs when the festivals get underway. My best ever roach catch came from the Portora stretch of the Erne back in 1992.That day I took seventy one kilos of roach on strong…

The night was upon me but at least I had sorted out the mud problem by putting wood under the bedchair legs to stop me sinking into the soft ground. Despite the line bites the first real bite did not occur until just before midnight when the rod cast to the bush gave a few…