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Each morning is greeted by a freshness in the air which stings the face and makes you feel good to be alive. The banks are green again after months of gloom and the margins are alive with life. The days are warm and the evenings long, giving plenty of time for a few hours by…

Well – not exactly January – the first trip was actually Boxing Day, when desperate to get out, and after days of heavy rain I headed off to Oxford. Sightings of rivers en route confirmed my suspicions – they were extremely wide! But I had this thought that however high the river, the fish would…

Look at the way tackle has developed over the last 20 years, the whole fishing tackle market keeps reinventing the wheel year after year and we keep upgrading our rods and terminal tackle to keep up with the Jonesís. I suppose that we are quite lucky in the Groundbait market because we are dealing with…

My own birthday falls in February, so Iím stuck with permanent double-jeopardy. I figure the best thing to do each year is to distract myself from morbid thoughts by arranging something to really look forward to.In recent years my strategy has been to get as far from the winter gloom as possible, and into the…

I can’t believe how bad the weather is for July. At this time of year we often find our rivers low and clear but the Severn right now is running about two feet above summer normal level and quite coloured. Talking to other anglers around the country it seems a nationwide thing and even the…

Dogfish [Species Menu] [Dogfish articles] Common name: Lesser spotted dogfish Latin name: Scyliorhinus canicula Record weight: One of the few species where the shore record is larger than the boat caught best. The current boat record is 4lb 6oz 8 drams, whilst the shore best is 4lb 15oz 3 drams. Most fish are much smaller…