Trophy Room for STEVE FALCO

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…

Donegal Highland Pursuits The game angler will be spoilt for choice in the serene settings of the beautiful lakes and rivers, with salmon, brown trout, sea trout, grilse,and rainbow trout among the more interesting catches. The dramatic settings and crystal clear waters of Donegal’s coastline holds pollock, mackerel, wrass, dogfish,and flatfish for rock/shore fishing amid…

Saturday 8th April: After a pleasant evenings sail we left the ferry and travelled by coach to the River Spui. Everything about this venue is big: the ships the rocks and the size of feeder you need to hold bottom. Andy Jennings from Wakefield Match Anglers, and first winner of Fishamania, was pegged next to…

Playing the odds is something we do all the time when we go fishing and it is true to say that the odds are, that most of the fish will be feeding close to the bottom for most of the time. So it makes a lot of sense to fish our baits as near to…

This of course was no joking matter, but from a river anglers perspective it was dammed inconvenient. As portrayed very graphically by the media, floods were everywhere, but most that hit the headlines concerned areas affected by sustained floodwater over several days and more. There were of course many other floods occurring; flash flooding, where…

During my first four days back home I was kept very busy working on programmes and my new book. Come Tuesday I was back on the river Ribble with Stephen Ainscow to record some material for my At The Waters Edge programme – BBC Radio Lancashire Thursday evenings at 7-30pm Saturday mornings at 6-00 am…