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Over the years, my shark traces have evolved into a fifteen foot length of 400 pounds breaking strain monofilament, usually Japanese Momoi because it is the best. A heavy graspable swivel at the reel end and a 400 lb Berkeley Crosslok or 400lb Sampo Coastlok at the other. The three-foot hook-length is traditionally soft stainless…

The Environment Agency is sending more than 600,000 letters to anglers urging them to buy their 2003/04 rod licence by Direct Debit. Letters will start arriving from today (Monday) and anglers have until the February 4 to return the completed mandates. In 2001/2 a pilot Direct Debit project was launched in the Agencys Anglian and…

Today many anglers are travelling to fish the east coast for striped bass. Fish that can often weigh twenty and thirty pounds. Striper bass are a tough quarry, the perfect target for a fly fisher from the beaches, rocky outcrops and jetties. Without doubt the best way to go striper fishing is book one of…

Last week I was talking a little bit about the Estate Lake and about the ins and outs of fishing it. I thought it might be interesting this week, and maybe controversial, to look at how small angling clubs handle carp waters they run and how they handle carp fishing and carp anglers. I was…

During the 19th and early 20th century anglers would cast wet and dry flies for coarse and game fish in rivers and still waters. Sadly all this changed during the early 1920’s when fly fishing for the coarse fish become unfashionable, and with the shortage of suitable waters, it seemed that brown trout and salmon…

Last weekend I had two days at Earlswood. On Saturday I drew peg 17 on the Windmill Lake and to be honest I didn’t fancy it at all as the favoured area in recent weeks has been the dam wall or the forties. The good thing about bream waters though is that the fish are…