Trophy Room for Paul Taylor

INSURANCEPersonal and travel insurance is vital. Your ferry company or travel agent will be able to arrange this, but you could find cheaper and better cover through a local broker or through your own insurance agent. I use a company called Direct Travel Insurance (www.direct-travel.co.uk), a Member of the General Insurance Standards Council. They provide…

I suppose, personally, everybody views these disasters and their significance differently. Personally, well, I suppose I tend to go with the line of thought that says, when your time is up then theres little you can do about it. Okay, I, like everybody else wont take unnecessary risks but, if I think theyre justified then…

The last decade or so has seen huge growth in the range of flavours available to the coarse angler. This culminated last month in the launch of Ultrabite which is being put on the market with such extravagant claims as to its efficacy that there are already mutterings about whether or not it should be…

Plaice [Species Menu] [Plaice articles] Common name: Plaice Latin name: Pleuronectes platessa Record weight: The plaice is one of the smaller flatfish found around the British coast. The boat record is a whopper of 10lb 3oz 8 drams, whilst the shore caught best is a fish of 8lb 6oz 14 drams. Distribution: Plaice were once…

This month I want to try to answer some of your questions on fly fishing tackle and holiday venues. First of all I don’t think there is a better time than now to go off on that exotic holiday to warmer climes you have promised yourself for the past few years. I know from your…

The only consolation is that this is without doubt one of the best times of the year to go seeking a specimen fish as they begin packing on protein in preparation for the seasonal migration to warmer climes or maybe just the drift down the channel to stay within the embracing warmth of the Gulf…