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Then a couple of good friends asked me to join them in a team that they were putting together, “purely for the fun side of it”, and I couldnt really refuse the offer. I enjoyed the first round of the “House of Hardy” competition; it was fished at Chew Valley and coincided with some great…

September will probably be still warm but the weed will begin to lose its grip. Clear areas will be easier to find, so get in on these first, before others do. Once you find one – I find leading about the best bet to locate them – then bait it up and fish it continuously….

It was with great relief that Bill and I drove round the M25 to join the A1 on a very early musty morning at the advent of the school holidays. Our destination – Willow Waters at Pocklington near York. My customary needlework and holiday reading material was neatly packed alongside Bill’s fishing tackle which as…

Specie: Spanish Mackerel Weight: 55 lb Location: Great Barrier Reef 55 lb Spanish Mackerel caught on board ‘Orca’ off the Great Barrier Reef, Australia, October 1999. At the time this was the biggest fish I had ever caught. I was a very happy man. We ate it raw

Spinning had almost become a lost art and truthfully it is only old farts like me who can remember the stir when Alexander Wanless wrote his book about spinning, using controllers and such esoteric methods using the new fangled fixed spool reels such as the Le Omnia and the classic Mitchell 300. What joyous days…

Approximately 20 anglers in the UK drown each year. Lifesavers, The Royal Life Saving Society UK, the countrys leading water safety body, has issued advice to anglers who continue to fish throughout autumn and winter. Di Standley, Chief Executive at Lifesavers, a West Midlands-based organisation, commented: “There are risks to anglers year-round, but in late…