Swale Angling Centre

To keep catching throughout the course of a season now means adapting or modifying your techniques constantly to take the barbel off guard. Today the barbel anglers repertoire of methods includes many more techniques than we would have ever thought possible, but one method that is still extremely rarely applied is the use of balls…

Articles by Henry Gilbey Henry Gilbey Henry Gilbey has been fishing since the age of seven and has lived in Plymouth for the last nine years; this is about the perfect base for a fanatical sea angler. He currently writes and photographs full time for various angling publications, as well as being the presenter of…

If you should find a rod ring that is cracked or grooved, do not hesitate to replace it, because waiting could cost you the fish of a lifetime and at the very least totally ruin the line you are using. Truthfully you have two choices. One is to take the rod to a rod builder…

Articles by Rod Henton Rod Henton Born somewhere below the North pole during the love & peace era of the mid-sixties. Originally brought up by pack wolves before being released back into the wild at the age of seven to bring sanity back into a mad world; unfortunately he failed. An over indulgent personality with…

This of course was no joking matter, but from a river anglers perspective it was dammed inconvenient. As portrayed very graphically by the media, floods were everywhere, but most that hit the headlines concerned areas affected by sustained floodwater over several days and more. There were of course many other floods occurring; flash flooding, where…

Wherever salmon fly-fishing is practised throughout the world there are constant reminders of its birth and development in Scotland. Many traditional patterns of salmon flies were developed on the banks of Scotlands famous rivers – flies like Dunkeld (named after the small county town in Perthshire on the banks of the mighty River Tay and…