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What saddens myself and many other anglers is the practice of stocking some southern rivers with rainbow trout. When I questioned one river keeper who wished to be nameless he said “The members of the syndicate pay a lot of money, and they want their moneys’ worth in dead trout” I am sure that when…

THE APPEAL – The capture of a sea trout straight from the salt has got to be one of the biggest thrills in angling. Forget stockies or naturally reproducing brown trout, saltwater sea trout are a race apart. In my neck of the woods these sleek silver specimens, muscled up with the rich feeding of…

Specie: carp Weight: 19lb 2 oz ” I was invited to fish a coporate fishing day at BIRD’S GREEN, ESSEX which involved fishing from 10.00am to 117.00pm. During the match ( I caught eighteen carp smallest being a 6lb 2oz mirror carp upto this fish which weighed in at a clossal ( for me that…

The fishing tackle business (in which I play an active part) really does talk some crap at times. Most of the marketing hype is just a little bit of showmanship but every so often a trend develops which can damage angling. The trend that particularly worries me at the moment actually has more to do…

That’s just one of the questions on the immigration paperwork that tourists to the USA have to cope with. Still, they let Ginger in, and if they let him in I was bound to get in. Ginger, you see, has emigrated to the Colonies. Having married Mary, his lovely American wife 20 odd years ago…

In fact theres probably little doubt that the very best pike fishing in the entire world is to be found along the fringes of the Baltic sea. I, myself, have witnessed the capture of one forty-seven pound fish. Ive lost a fish that was at least seven or eight pounds larger. Ive either seen or…