Tredworth Fishing Tackle

Let me start with some forthcoming dates: August 27th/28th Peregrine International Final Rutland September 4th England Loch-style National Bewl Water September 11th England Disabled Loch-style National Rutland Sept. 15th/16th/17th Hardy Final Rutland Nov27th –Dec5th World Fly-fishing Championships Australia Good luck to anyone who may be fishing in any of those events. I shall be at…

The Falklands represent all that is good about fishing wild places and the lessons learnt there can be applied anywhere.I am a Sergeant in the Royal Air Force. I came to be there on a four month tour on a mountain radar site on the north west tip of the West Falklands at a place…

Peg 84 on the Quarry Park section of the Shrewsbury match length saw me take first place with 12.14.0 of roach and dace on the waggler. I must admit I didn’t really fancy the draw when I pulled it out of the bag as there were a lot of good anglers on what I thought…

A couple of days ago I had a long conversation with Dick Derrington on the telephone about the August Bank Holiday angling festival at Evesham. For many years John Smiths Brewery has sponsored the event. Last year saw the last ‘John Smiths’ as the company decided to withdraw it’s sponsorship and many anglers wondered whether…

Strange how the soft plastic “muppets” attract and catch fish. Go to tropical waters and see them trolled at 7 or 8 knots for big game species, fish them with or without bait for cod and pollack over wrecks and reefs. It really is uncanny why fish are suicidally attracted to these lures with a…

I’d learned a lot over the past few years, though some of it had taken an awfully long time to reach me, hidden away at the furthest end of a barely discernible grapevine. I had never really intended to become embroiled in carp fishing, and had even been known to remark that indeed life was…