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The majority of the brown trout had been stocked as fingerlings as the reservoir filled in the early seventies. Although stocked as fingerlings we regarded them as “wild fish”.These trout appeared to spend most of their lives on the bottom which could be up to 90ft down. This called for lead core tactics with powerful…

Carp [Species Menu] [Carp articles] Common name: Carp Latin name: Cyprinus carpio Record weight: The current record fish is affectionately known as ‘two-tone’ and is slowly edging towards 60lb. This lovely fish lives in a large gravelpit in Kent called Conningbrook. The current (September 2001) record weight for this fish is 59lb 7oz captured by…

The river Aire is an excellent coarse and trout fishing water, in the upper reaches of the river from Skipton upstream its fly fishing for brown trout and grayling. Bradford City AA own some two miles of double bank fly fishing where grayling have been caught to 3lbs. The fishing starts from the A59 and…

Now, I had two or three days holiday which I could take, and this would give me a few extra days fishing before the curtain came down, though I would be ski-ing at Glenshee for the penultimate weekend of the season and not fishing. In fact, in the last three weeks I managed just five…

Thankfully the likes of Lefty Kreh, Pat O’Reilly, Jim Schollmeyer, Mark Bachman and other fly fishers, both in the UK and the United States, helped me to get rid of some bad casting habits. For a hundred years or so, fly fishing writers discussed casting with the aid of the hands of a clock, they…

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…