Tackle & Gun

Din Tur Visit beautiful Norway on an exciting fishing trip. Ocean and fjord fishing from a small boat, be your own skipper. The best rivers for salmon, the nicest mountain lakes for trout. Din Tur, Norway Welcome to Norway, a country with endless fishing opportunities. We made a selection for you of the sport fishing…

The biggest mistake normally sees the wrong choice of float size for a given situation. In addition many anglers, especially newcomers to the sport, use the wrong shotting patterns down the line. When selecting a waggler I always adopt a very simple equation. That is sensitivity versus buoyancy. I always ask myself “What am I…

Fortunately this is the easiest of all the rings on a rod to replace, provided it hasn’t been done before by someone using epoxy or superglue. Professional rod builders always glue top eyes to the rod tip using a form of “hot melt” glue. Fuji make a small tube of hot melt glue in a…

The wind off the Indian Ocean was blowing hot and steady, whipping the sweat from my skin too fast for it to have any cooling effect whatsoever against the unremittingly fierce sun. I paused for a while under the shade of a spiny tree to pour water, warm from the bottle, over my head and…

BarbelNovember can be the best month of the season for barbel if the water temperature is kind to us. If we donít have too many really heavy frosts and a few spells of settled conditions, and especially with a touch of colour in the river, sport with barbel can be hectic. It is the month…

One of the many angling related presents I received for my 40th birthday back in January was a couple of days fishing on The Royalty. My Mum had booked the Top Weir Compound for my exclusive use at the end of February and Jacqui had booked us into one of the numerous B&B’s in Christchurch…