The Fly Box

It’s curious then, that no-one that I can bring to mind, has developed his assertion that to catch the right fish, you need to offer them the right music. Well, what a load of kibosh, you might think. But just hang on a minute, we’re talking here about Walker – THE Walker. He wasn’t often…

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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…

Common skate grow big. They regularly weigh over 150lbs and 200lbers are caught every year. Commercially caught common skate have exceeded 400lbs. There are rumours of post WW2 skate to 600lbs from Icelandic waters, though these giants are mostly associated with the 1930’s -before stocks were reduced through commercial exploitation as technology improved catch rates…

The vast majority of carp over 2lb are caught on boilies in this country but this is not because carp will only eat boilies, it is because they are convenient to use and easy to obtain. However with a huge amount of boilies being put into waters up and down the country the carp now…

White Acres has a great reputation for match festivals that attract many of the top names in the match fishing world and we were arriving just after the Spring Festival that had produced some real heavyweight catches.The weather had turned much colder with a nasty North Easterly wind chilling all the lakes. This was not…