The last couple of weeks have been odd ones for my personal ambitions in trout fishing; in two different competitions I drew Tony Baldwin, of whom I have talked a great deal in the past. This in itself sets certain hurdles as, in our case anyway, our approach to fishing is fairly different.
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Do you have to fly for ever, seemingly, to find waters unexploited? Do you have to pump yourself full of injections and malaria tablets before you can travel to a country that gives you a marvellous sense of freedom and space? Of course not. In fact, for 80 or so and slightly more minutes you…
If I were to talk of a water holding 3lb grayling and 2lb roach, where do you suppose I’d be referring to? Some expensive beat on the Test, Itchen or Dorset Frome maybe? Or perhaps further afield of my southern stomping grounds to somewhere like the River Teviot? Well none of these and if the…
Doh! Frustration! You see, I just spent the best part of two hours (alright, ten minutes) writing this piece only to lose it in a hard disk crash. And no, actually, cleverdick, I had not yet gotten around to saving it, let alone backing it up. Besides, as everybody knows very well, back-ups are for…
Specie: pike Weight: 50lb Location: south of Ireland This pike was caught on a trolled Rapala Supershad and 50lb braided line towards the end of February 1998. The location was an undisclosed lake in the south of Ireland. It weighed in at 29lb 8oz and is my personal best.
A record attendance of 15,000 visitors in 2001 confirmed the Davies Angling Sale as the premier fishing event in the South. It is the largest annual event dedicated to angling enthusiasts in the region with a 17 year track record of offering the best bargains available. As over two million pounds worth of bankrupt and…