In this new series, I will be looking in fair depth at various venues on the Lower Thames. This is a task that to my knowledge has not been tackled since John Burrett wrote his classic book “The Lower Thames” in 1960. This short book was part of a series looking at fishing famous rivers. Unfortunately the series has been out of print for many years and has never been updated.
Whilst we were visiting the water to do our feature finding hopefully we chose nice sunny calm days so we had a chance to see some of the fish we hoped to catch as well. Certainly if we found areas of snags or the early signs of lily beds then we should have seen the…
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Pouting [Species Menu] [Pouting articles] Common name: Pouting Latin name: Trisopterus luscus Record weight: A small inshore member of the cod family, the pouting is one of the most common fish around the British coast and can make up a large percentage of angler catches. Whilst most fish weigh under a pound, the boat caught…
I was staggered, but highly excited by the fact that I would be fishing all through the following day. I arrived at dawn, as usual. A gale force south-westerly still blew from the previous day, and there were bits of trees floating all over the lake. We had found that though the fish would often…
Ive fished all the Isles but, in the end, I guess it comes down to the Uist both north and south that get my vote as my own personal favourite. There are two ways to get there: you can be relaxed about things and take a day or two travelling and finally catch a ferry…