The Fish Pond

Norwegian Flyfishers Club Norway has always conjured up special and precious images. Mountainpanoramas, fastflowing crystalline rivers, very large leaping silver fish Norway has always conjured up special and precious images. Mountainpanoramas, fastflowing crystalline rivers, very large leaping silverfishThese are the scenarios that have earned Norway its reputation as theworld’s premier sanctuary for the elusive Atlantic…

In late December 1999, armed with a couple of telescopic rods and various lures, I travelled with a friend from Goa through to Kathmandu then back to Delhi overland for 7 weeks. It was only while I was sitting on the bank of the Babai river in western Nepal, surrounded by rhino dung and young…

Sometimes this is the baiting situation that I have created, but more often than not it is the rig which they have sensed. Now this might be because of the hook, lead, bait fixing, or main line rising from the bait, but often it is the hook length which appears to be causing the problem….

AIMS The Committee exists to recognise and publish record weights of both fresh and salt water fish caught on rod and line by fair angling methods in the waters of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands, and aims: To provide an adjudicating body to which marine and freshwater anglers may submit claims…

My first month has been difficult to say the least with most venues I’ve been to suffering from “feast or famine syndrome”. On paper many of the match results look good but what the overall results don’t show is that a lot of competitors are struggling to catch. When a new season starts I think…

My body was tanned a nice mahogany colour from being at the waterside in the very warm sunshine day after day. The seven weight rod hooped over for probably the twentieth time in as many casts, so good was the fishing. But beware of the Queenfish, it has several spikes situated around its body and…