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Lough Mask is 20,000 acres of the cleanest, natural water to be found anywhere in the world. It lies where the limestone central plains of Ireland meet the rugged sandstone mountains of West Mayo on Ireland’s Atlantic coast. It’s proximity to the Atlantic ensures that the area is never short of wind and rain and…

Saturday was a little frustrating. I competed in the Earlswood Lakes Windmill Lake open, drew peg 23 and was a little dismayed upon arrival at the peg to find my old mate Bob Marklew sat at the next peg. Now anyone who knows Bob will tell you that to draw next to him is the…

Location: From Sunbury Cross at the end of the A316 follow the A308 towards Staines. After passing the Queen Mary Reservoir on your left hand side you will come into a roundabout. Turn left at this roundabout and left again at the next roundabout that is about 200 yards away. This is Ashford Road. Follow…

I left Manchester airport for Philadelphia just after noon which meant I didn’t have to get up halfway through the night, my US Airways flight was as always excellent, the staff making sure everyone was comfortable and relaxed with no problems. It was a different story when I arrived in Philadelphia. Going through the check…

On the big Meadow lake at Somerley I passed a chap in a Trilby hat carrying a lovely Mk.IV and Walker landing net. He even smiled and said ‘Good evening’ which is very unusual at Somerley, where ‘grunt’ is the accepted greeting, and properly enunciated works invoke an incredulous wide-eyed stare.The arguments for and against…

We hadn’t been able to muster a decent torch between us, so our erratic journey through the darkened wood was preceded by the flickering beam of an old lamp which had once belonged to Wince’s father. It threw a small circle of light before us which climbed silently over brambles and fallen branches like a…