To my knowledge this fishery has never been advertised or featured in any other fishing publication. Yes, a real internet exclusive, and a great little fishery that is offering real value for money fly fishing. As you only pay for the fish you take, this is the place to take a beginner as they are not subsidising more experienced anglers.
We arrived in Montreal after finishing our meetings late Friday afternoon and transformed ourselves from city suited businessmen to fully garbed fishermen within five minutes in the men’s toilets in the airport. We were ready to tackle the mighty St Lawrence river carp.Joe Babbitt met us at the luggage carousel and soon we were in…
Now I wouldn’t go as far as that these days – not in Scotland anyway. But whenever I’ve been lucky enough to fish the Varzuga or the Ponoi in Russia’s Kola and hit one of those spells when I’m hooking 20 fish a day, I’ve felt that those old aristos had a point. Because the…
The writer will tell us about seeing barbel glide from under the lush green canopy of weed and begin to feed on the clean gravel. He may also describe how he waits for the barbel to make an appearance and begin to mop up the scattering of sweetcorn he had introduced earlier. We northern anglers…
There are no secrets in my life any more. When you have seen the elephant, so called secrets become irrelevant in the great scheme of things. So I tell these curious anglers precisely where to go, exactly where to park their car and the lures to use. Funny how when I go fishing at these…
Yet it is true to say that most anglers leave their line on a reel for far too long. It is only when it starts snapping like rotten cotton that changing it seems like a good idea.Fishing far out in the Western Approaches recently, an angler alongside me lost fish after fish when his line…
It proved to be a most unusual end to the season, especially for local star Dave Shipman and Bewl’s Ray Burt. The event as usual, was fished over two days. The second was to finish at 5.30pm. 53 of the 54 boats arrived back at the jetty at the correct time. But where was boat…