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Roach [Species Menu] [Roach articles] Common name: Roach Latin name: Rutilus rutilus Record weight: 4lb 3oz taken in 1990 by R. N. Clarke from the Dorset Stour. Distribution: Found throughout England, Ireland, Wales and Southern Scotland. Very common across the whole of Europe, where several sub-species and closely related species are also to be found…

The final leg of the trip finds you tucked away in the Drakensberg mountains of South Africa. Sani Valley lodge, situated at the foot of Sani Pass has beautifully appointed cabins on the bank of a 260 acre lake teaming with rainbow and brown trout. African Horizons of South Africa specializes in upmarket, tailor made…

To keep catching throughout the course of a season now means adapting or modifying your techniques constantly to take the barbel off guard. Today the barbel anglers repertoire of methods includes many more techniques than we would have ever thought possible, but one method that is still extremely rarely applied is the use of balls…

Still, I should be able to find a little bit of time to fit in a few evenings chub fishing. Like all specimen angling though, catching big chub consistently is about preparation. I have done my home work and I have a good idea of where to fish, which in itself can take a long…

Trolling is a method much used by inshore artisanal fisherman as the modern parlance likes to call them(Euro speak). In other words full time professional fishermen who use small boats handlining for mackerel, trolling for bass and pollack combined with a bit of potting and sometimes even a bit of netting. I have no argument…

A lot of it can be put down to lack of time. My last two efforts at catching a big fish have both occurred when outside pressures have limited my fishing time. There is no doubting though that big tench can be a law unto themselves and can be a real devil to catch. The…