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A couple of pals had called me to join them on an overnight/ all-day trip but I couldn’t make the night session as Maggi and I had tickets to a concert. Instead, I lay in bed till 8.30am when the phone rang. It was the boys. They wanted to know when I was arriving and…

It was a wild, desolate and beautiful place. Acres of rocks, kelp and bladder-wrack interspersed with spits of shingle and sand. Rushing green slides of clear tidal water ran like rivers in flood between boulders of granite, all of it stretching away towards the horizon. A place of currents, washed out shells, where a myriad…

Although this article is in the game section of this magazine it includes pike fishing as well as trout fishing because , on Lough Mask, pike can be caught by all the game fishing methods i.e. fly , trolling and bait (worm or dead bait). The techniques are well covered by Mark Ackerley (Dead baiting)…

Most tope fishing is done either by casting baits uptide away from the boat, or deep dropping baits in areas of fast tides and deep water. But thereís a new technique, originally pioneered in mid Wales, that proves far more effective and gives the tope the full freedom to fight, and itís fast catching on…

I had decided before I went to have an all out assault with chopped worm and caster. At the start of the session I fed around a pint of chopped worm and caster into the swim (which was about nine feet deep) thirteen metres out. I then loosefed casters with a catapult to the same…

Last Saturday I had to go to Didcott in Oxfordshire for a couple of hours work. I left Bristol in freezing cold conditions, but bright sunshine. The drive along the M4 was directly into the sun and thus quite a strain on the eyes. On reaching Hungerford the fields were covered with snow. In Oxford…