Trophy Room for STEVE FALCO

The passing of the years has seen innumerable other transitory interests. Stamps, cricket, football, girls, astronomy, photography, and computers in rough time sequence. I have played – no, make that endured – golf. But always undimmed and uninterrupted the obsession for fishing. It started with Crabtree, progressed through the writings of Walker, and the quill…

Rigging a boom for Deep Water fishing – RUSS SYMONSAny water deeper than 50 feet is deep water. As the rig sinks into the depths with a flowing trace using a lure or baits such as worm, sandeel or mackerel strip, the leader can become tangled around the main line unless a boom is used…

The biggest mistake normally sees the wrong choice of float size for a given situation. In addition many anglers, especially newcomers to the sport, use the wrong shotting patterns down the line. When selecting a waggler I always adopt a very simple equation. That is sensitivity versus buoyancy. I always ask myself “What am I…

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…

There’s Murphy – whose family live there and whose guests we are – Dicky, BG and me. The Headford and District Anglers hold their annual competition on the Lough at this time of year and we were determined to take part. We planned our arrival for the day before the competition so that we’d have…

In my role as assistant to John Horsey in the Peregrine/Nomad International Flyfishing Competition I was unfortunately out of the country for the first round event at Rutland, but I had a full report from John. There were no great surprises as Dave Shipman’s Cormorant Fly Fishers team easily won the day with 37 trout….