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One of the best sets of tides for winter shore cod throughout England and Wales are the spring tides over the Christmas period. These tides and the next set in early January give the main cod shoals their last chance of a big feed before they start to think about making little cod and heading…

I like the idea of myself as a revolutionary figure, with guns blazing, shooting down all the politicians and greedy b****s who have done so much over past decades to reduce the values of our angling pastimes, whether it be sea angling, coarse angling, or game angling. True anglers will know that I am not…

Specie: Zander 14lb 04oz Weight: 14lb 04oz Location: Old Bury Hill Fishery, Dorking, Surrey. I was fishing a short morning session before work and landed this brace 14lb 04oz & 13lb 06oz within 30min of each other on ledgered dead bait to 12lb main line.

The recent set of articles about the pike in Lough Mask has prompted a bit of mail. Some want to know more about the pike there, and others keep asking about the trout! As a balance to Mark Ackerley’s excellent pike series, which you can read elsewhere in fishing.co.uk, local fishing guide Brian Joyce informs…

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Articles by John Olliff-Cooper John Olliff-Cooper John started his writing career with Angling magazine in the late 1960’s, since when he has contributed to most of the better-known hard copy magazines. Flirted with modernity for a few years, then panicked at the shallow hype of it all, and fled through 180 degrees. Having been properly…