The Tackle Box

Despite deserving excellent mild spring conditions, all that I got was a wet afternoon clearing to cold clear skies followed after midnight by yet more rain. It all started well though as when I arrived two of the members were just packing up after a 48 hour session and one of them had caught an…

RodsThere is now available a vast array of rods suitable for pike fishing. You can walk into almost any decent tackle shop and find rods that will fit the bill. As a general purpose pike rod I would recommend a rod of twelve foot with a test curve of around three pounds. This would be…

Tench [Species Menu] [Tench articles] Common name: Tench Latin name: Tinca tinca Record weight: Fifteen pounds, caught by Darren Ward from a Surrey lake in June 2001. Distribution: Because of its economic importance as a food source, tench have been spread right across Europe and Asia by humans. In the UK they can now be…

Whatever scientist reckoned the deadliest creature on earth was a jellyfish had obviously never met my first wife, no jellyfish on earth could kill with a single look. 18 -12 Good overture that! 24lb 2oz – Spike I’m the one holding the fish It was about this time I decided I wasn’t fishing enough. A…

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Biting cold North-east winds, dark grey brooding skies and freezing rain, such a contrast to the pleasant spring weather we experienced just a week ago. I must admit that as I get older I tend to take a bit more notice of the weather than I used to. Not that I’m a fair-weather angler, nothing…