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Every year, my friend Roger Baker raves about his holiday at White Acres while he shows me yet more photographs of his outstanding catches. However in reality White Acres is much more than a brilliant fishery – it is a great holiday venue for the whole family with excellent accommodation and top quality entertainment.

1. The Breakaway Impact Lead.For me this is the most significant advance in terminal tackle in a long time. Not only does the Impact lead have a streamlined shape, aiding casting, and excellent holding properties but more importantly it provides a near failsafe release of the hook every time. I have been using these leads…

Christmas is one time of the year I never fish nowadays although I have in fact fished many times on Christmas Eve and many years ago a group of us used to go up the Fens to fish for zander over the New Year Eve period.These Christmas excursions though have always been about having a…

The mild weather soon passed and through the rest of March and April temperatures never got above mid-double figures. I spent every weekend fishing and walking and baiting areas, with only tench and bream to show for my efforts. Although this period wasn’t productive, I didn’t consider it a waste of time, in fact the…

In this final article, I will be discussing the fishing techniques I employ in those well prepared swims and I would like to talk about two specific trips from the last couple of seasons to illustrate the important points. One will deal with the fishing in high summer, with the river very low, and the…

We are trolling slowly homewards at the end of Major and Mrs. Bruce Kinloch’s two-day charter. It has been both a celebration of fifty years of marriage, and a quest to find a blue marlin for the Major, who – despite some forty years of service on the African coast in various civil positions –…