Trophy Room for Paul Moscrop

Most pike waters have only limited spawninghabitat for the pike and if you are not in one ofthese places your chances of catching are severelyreduced. So my aim this week is to try and point youin the right direction. With a little bit of effortthe Spring haunt of the pike can be quite easy to…

This verdant area is where a spring bubbles up from the rocky ground. Not a particularly unusual occurrence you may feel – except that, in this case, the spring is the source of a mighty river. A river which is the largest in Scotland, an important navigational asset, hugely consequential in tourism-related terms but perhaps…

Specie: Pike Weight: 22lb Location: Big reservoir outside Oldham, Lancashire. (Sept. 2000) Can you believe this was my first ever fish after pike fishing for nearly two years. Believe me it was well worth the wait!

Tench are at their best from early April through to late June, this period being narrower or wider, or the time band shifting either earlier or later in the year, according to the conditions at the time. If that period is particularly mild then the tench will begin feeding earlier and will spawn earlier, or…

Articles by Martin James Martin James Martin James. International salt and freshwater angler, consultant, writer, author, broadcaster and TV contributor was born in 1937 in Kent, at Canada House, a nursing home for Navy officer’s wives. Martin caught his first fish in 1941 during a German bomber raid on his home county of Kent. As…

This has been one hell of a week! I was out of the country for a few days last week and upon my return at around midnight on Monday I realised that the River Severn was about to go into flood mode as it was right up to the top of the quayside a few…