The Brighton Angler

Big bream are awesome creatures. OK, they don’t generally fight very hard, and yes, they do smell a bit, oh, and they can be a bit slimy, but they really are awesome looking creatures. Have you ever seen a double figure bream? I hadn’t until 1998, although I had come close on a couple of…

There are four main waters here, three low stocked un-pressured large waters and one better stocked, pressured lake. Firstly, The Ash Tree Pit that I had fished heavily the previous season, and a water I’ll be detailing in the final part of this series. A very large, untapped, broken-up lake of massive potential for big…

Have you seen it then? Piccachu and his cronies? The Pokeman thing. What’s all that about then? Anyone know? No? Me neither.Of course the kid’s Pokeman craze isn’t exactly original, based on swopping a few cards around. We had similar games back in the post-war days (yes, WW2) and my Dad even had ’em when…

As we had the driest June on record, I thought I might start with a summertime gag; Sod all to do with fishing but when has that ever stopped me? Here goes then… A guy goes into his back garden to sunbathe but falls asleep in the midday sun, five hours later he wakes to…

I know that I am not alone in this, so it is a good time to talk about the welfare of our pike and zander stocks. Although often portrayed as ferocious predators, once on the bank these fish are amongst the most delicate you will ever come across. Big pike and zander are rare creatures….

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