Trophy Room for Paul Moscrop

Last Saturday I fished the match at Bewdley and when I drew peg 115, the pipe swim, I really fancied my chances of a big weight. I won off this peg on the first midweek match of the season with sixty-one pounds of barbel; I’ve had a successful magazine feature off it and done some…

Rudd [Species Menu] [Rudd articles] Common name: Rudd Latin name: Scardinius erythrophthalmus Record weight: The oldest coarse fish record on the books. Currently held by a fish of 4lb 8oz taken in 1933 by Rev. E. C. Alston from a Norfolk Mere. Distribution: Found throughout Europe, but absent from Iberia. Extends into Northern Asia. Found…

Obvious ones that are in daily use for example are herds, flocks, and shoals, but there are hundreds of names describing specific species. I was intrigued to learn that an animal which I think is of special attractiveness to most of mankind, the porpoise, and also the dolphin, have a social structure which includes similarities…

The fly is both easy to tie and uses materials that are readily available. Newcomers to the art of fly-tying could do a lot worse than to start out on a fly like this one. I believe that Arthur tied the fly to imitate the large buzzers found in Eyebrook in the sixties. He generally…

The Fishing The lakes are stocked with Brown & Rainbow Trout and Tavistock Fishery has held the ‘British Record’ for the largest cultivated Rainbow Trout at 30lb 12 oz (caught by Tony Flower from Newquay on Yellow Cat’s Whisker). The record Rainbow for the 2000 season was 26lb 10oz. The record Brown Trout at the…

Trolling is a method much used by inshore artisanal fisherman as the modern parlance likes to call them(Euro speak). In other words full time professional fishermen who use small boats handlining for mackerel, trolling for bass and pollack combined with a bit of potting and sometimes even a bit of netting. I have no argument…