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Last Sunday I took my youngest daughter, aged four, on a walk down the bridle path to the stream at the bottom of our lane. The first strong winds of autumn had brought down several big branches and a billion leaves, so that our landscape had suddenly become crunchy and bare. The plan was to…

As it is so much lighter and stiffer than traditional rod making material, most modern fly rods are made from some form of carbon fibre. These are also much thinner and lighter than the older alternatives. This, coupled with the fact that they have in real terms fallen in price, makes carbon fibre the ideal…

Crayfish pick up the wrong signals Scientists are using the pulling power of pioneering ‘sex traps’ to lure invasive alien crayfish from British waters. In an innovative research project sponsored by the Environment Agency and English Nature, alien North American signal crayfish are being tricked into thinking they’ll be shown a good time if they…

Articles by Bill Rushmer Bill Rushmer Bill is a chartered Chemist and retired teacher who is still fighting to keep the lid off his coffin. Remains as barmy about his fishing as he was over forty years ago – and is still loving it. Married to Virginia who is just as crazy about her fishing….

Flicking through my daily newspaper I came upon the cartoons – I’m not an F.T reader you understand, – there was this drawing of two monks facing each other. The monk on the far side had a large cigar in his left hand and a tumbler of whisky in his right, behind him stood two…

AIMS AND OBJECTS The Committee exists to recognise and publish record weights of both fresh and salt water fish caught on rod and line by fair angling methods in the waters of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and aims:o To provide an adjudicating body to which marine and freshwater anglers may…