Trophy Room for Eddie Kuczynski

We started with two or three days of near gale force winds which really stirred up the silt (Chew especially is a shallow lake), and this was followed by several oppressive days – little wind and sweltering conditions, though not genuinely hot. In previous seasons these conditions have presented some of my most memorable fishing….

All species feed well in the spring but the two that really start feeding are carp and tench. Carp and tench of course are catchable all year round but without doubt they do lie up for some undetermined period during the winter, usually from mid-December to mid-February. Carp will be caught covered in leaches that…

Location: Bury Hill fisheries are situated just off the A25 Dorking to Guildford road and is sign posted on the right when travelling from Dorking. It is a brown tourist board sign. The fishery is less than 1 mile from Dorking town centre.Address: Bury Hill Fisheries Estate Office, Old Bury Hill, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 3JUPhone…

Zero stretchOne of the major advantages of braided lines is the almost total lack of stretch. Braids typically have between 3 and 5% stretch, compared to the 25% of nylon lines. This means that hook sets are far superior to nylon line, particularly at very long range. Believe it or not, at distances of greater…

Thorpe Park Ski Lakes Mixed coarse fishery where Personal Best’s come true. Day ticket water open from March 15th to November 1st, 2000. Probably one of the best untapped specimen lakes around. The ski lake is just under 100 acres of water next to M3 at Chertsey and until October 1999 had not seen many…

Enthused by a wonderful couple of days in March at Kiwayu, of the coast of North Kenya, when we had had fine sport taking Koli-Koli (aka Golden Trevally) on the fly, as they in their turn preyed upon the shoals of sardines, I dared to suggest to Belinda that we once again ventured down to…