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It’s pretty hard to find any decent fishing in the UK without being a member of at least one club, unless you are fortunate enough to own your own waters or are a member of the royal family, and it’s been like that for many years, all of my lifetime anyway. Joining a club usually…

Derrypark Lodge Angling Centre Derrypark Lodge Angling CentreTourmakeady, County Mayo, IrelandMayo, IrelandTel: +353 (092) 44081Fax: +353 (092) 44081 Email: bjoyce@fishing.co.uk 1 Lake Traditional stonebuilt fishing lodges situated on the shore of Lough Mask amidst superb mountain scenery. World famous wild brown trout fishing and specimen pike hunting. Professional gillies and quality boats and motors. Two…

Dont allow yourself to get carried away by on-screen fish marks. Huge shoals and massive fish showing up all the time probably mean that you have the Sensitivity feature turned up too high for the speed at which you are travelling. If you are rowing your dinghy, turn the Sensitivity right down, for even on…

Loch Katrine – 8 miles long, around a mile wide, and surrounded by slopes clad in marvellous mixed woodland of oak, birch and rowan, backed by mountain peaks with mysterious Gaelic names; Beinn Chabhair (933m), Stob a’Choin (869m) and Ben Venue (727m), to name but a few. The scenery is literally legendary – immortalised by…

First off – wreckfishing. How about loading a big fixed-spool reel (say an Emblem 6000 or similar) with 20lb braid, matching it to a heavy-duty 7 spinning rod (say an UglyStick) and banging your pirks and hopper-rigs far beyond the wreck as you drift down on it, similar to what many Europeans and Yanks do,…

We have a calendar at work that gives you a thought for the day on each page, some witty, some poignant, mostly naff. Todays message warranted repeating though I thought, it read, Give someone a fish and it will feed them for a day, give someone the knowledge to fish and you will feed them…