Trophy Room for Paul Moscrop

It all stated around Christmas, I had a phone call from Geoff. “We’re going back out to the Ebro in May, do you fancy it?” A short pause followed. “I can’t really afford it,” I said without thinking too much about the costs involved. When you work for the Environment Agency as I do this…

The fishery in question was Barford Lakes, near Norwich. A well known, busy commercial fishery that has been around for quite a number of years now. Not the kind of place I would normally fish, as I prefer the pursuit of specimens rather than catching a bag of fish. But we needed a venue where…

Yet how many trout fishers ever read pike literature, or pike anglers read big-game articles? Very few. Perhaps they have missed something by not pooling their knowledge.I am fortunate in that I get to read everything printed in this magazine, and so sometimes I get to see connections that others perhaps might miss. If indeed…

We have a calendar at work that gives you a ‘thought for the day’ on each page, some witty, some poignant, mostly naff. Today’s message warranted repeating though I thought, it read, “Give someone a fish and it will feed them for a day, give someone the knowledge to fish and you will feed them…

So when the chance came to discover just what the jungle rivers of this huge country could offer the adventurous angler, I jumped at it. The deal allowed for two anglers, so I faxed that illustrious editor, Kevin Clifford, to see if he might be interested – Dear Kevin, is there any chance at all…

After last weeks ridiculously low temperatures the fickle English weather threw up really mild temperatures with days of 13 degrees and nights not much colder, so I had to get down the Colne Valley pit. I had heard before the ice that carp had been getting into a small channel that I had caught some…