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Modern carp fishing is still in its infancy over there but though the British influence has been a major factor in the development of French carp fishing, the French themselves have been quick to embrace the concept of the bivvy, bedchair and boilie approach to carp fishing and nowadays a widespread No-Kill policy is strictly…

The fly is both easy to tie and uses materials that are readily available. Newcomers to the art of fly-tying could do a lot worse than to start out on a fly like this one. I believe that Arthur tied the fly to imitate the large buzzers found in Eyebrook in the sixties. He generally…

We went to Malindi, and, of course, the reason that I’m writing about it, is because of the fishing. We were quite lucky with the weather because the rainy season has just begun, and as far as the fishing is concerned the monsoons have also begun, but although we had one or two showers, on…

In fact if I was offered a cheap lot of hooks I would probably refuse them in the belief that there would inevitably be something wrong with them. Good hooks from the likes of Mustad, Verivas, Gamakatsu and Partridge do not exactly break the bank and I would rather buy a small pack once each…

Time for a rant. I’m sure that not everyone would agree with the implication in the title that fishing is so poor in these Isles. And before you start flaming those emails at me, I do know that there are several places here where the fishing is very good. Those places are however quite rare…