The Fishing Lodge

Since then I had taken a brace of fit looking winter mirrors and on the first session this week I was party to a show of carp aerobatics that would put a summers night to shame. They were going mad. To make things even more exciting the carp were rolling consistently over my baits cast…

The telephone shrilled loudly across the darkened room. I struggled to pull myself from the living room chair that had been my bed for the night in the attempt answer it. Another figure lay slumped half on, half off the sofa, male by the look of it. I breathed in stale tobacco ridden air as…

Day 1: Like the rest of you, December and January had seen me catch very little and I was more than happy to try something a little bit different. Jeff Kennett had invited me to have a day out on the Thames in his boat and so at the crack of dawn I helped him…

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

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Specie: Pike Weight: 22lb 12oz Location: Local Club Water, nr. Aylesbury, Bucks. I saw a long dark shape in about 3′ water about a 6′ from the bank, I dropped a small herring just in front of the shape and it just took off. After about 10 minutes I managed to net it. A beautiful…